Azim murder case, 2 accused placed on 6-day remand

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A Dhaka court today placed accused Foysal Ali and Mostafizur Rahman on six-day remand each in a case filed over the abduction and murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jhenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata of India. 

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ataullah of Dhaka CMM Court passed the order after police produced the two suspects in the court and pleaded to place them on a 10-day remand. 

A special team of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained the two accused from Khagrachari, where they were hiding, posing as devotees at a remote Kali Temple for the last couple of days. 

The victim’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed the case on May 22 with the Capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. 

Anwarul Azim, a three-time MP and President of Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj upazila unit Awami League went to India on May 12 on a personal visit reportedly to receive medical treatment. He went missing on May 13 after leaving a flat in Kolkata’s Borah Nagar area. 

According to the Kolkata police sources, Anwarul Azim was taken to a flat in New Town of Kolkata, where he was learned to be strangled to death and his body was cut into pieces. - Special Correspondent