After interrogating Siyam Hussain, an accused in the murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, police on Sunday recovered from the Kashipur area what they believe are skeletal bones of the slain MP.

Hussain was arrested in Nepal on Monday and extradited on Friday. CID sources said that a team of investigators received information about the bones after they questioned Hussain on Saturday at the flat where Anar had been murdered.

The main accused, a business partner of Anar identified as Akhtaruzzaman, holds a US passport and has fled to the US, according to the CID. He allegedly killed Anar with the help of local accomplices and escaped to the US via Kathmandu, Nepal.

The 56-year-old MP of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League was brutally killed, with his body cut into about 80 pieces to destroy evidence. He was in Kolkata for medical treatment on May 12, went incommunicado on May 17, according to a complaint filed by his acquaintance on May 18. 

He was allegedly murdered in a posh flat in the New Town area near Kolkata. A butcher, who was the first to be arrested in the case, allegedly dismembered the MP’s body and mixed the parts with turmeric before disposing of them at different places.

According to the investigators, a rift between Anar and Akhtaruzzaman over gold smuggling could have led to the murder. Initial investigations revealed that Anar was apparently honey-trapped by a Bangladeshi model named Silasti Rahman, who is believed to be an acquaintance of one of his murderers and also have aided in his killing.

The woman, a resident of Bangladesh’s Khulna district, allegedly lured the MP to his death and returned to her country with another key accused, Amanullah Khan.

Rahman has reportedly been detained by the Bangladesh police.

Anar had stayed at his acquaintance Gopal Biswas’s house on arrival in Kolkata. In his complaint, Biswas stated that Anar left the former’s Baranagar home for a doctor’s appointment on the afternoon of May 13, saying that he would be back home for dinner. The MP went incommunicado on May 17, according to Biswas.

Source: Indian Express

BDST: 1320 HRS, JUN 09, 2024
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