MP Anar murder case, Jhenaidah AL leader Babu remanded

Anwarul Azim Anar MP

A Dhaka court Sunday placed Jhenaidah district Awami League leader Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu on a seven-day remand in a case filed over murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata of India.

Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order after police produced the accused Babu in the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand.

Babu was arrested from Jhenaidah recently by Detective Branch (DB) and was brought to the capital on June 6. Two separate courts earlier placed three other accused Tanvir Bhuiyan, Shimul Bhuiyan and Silisti Rahman on remand twice.

Another Dhaka court on May 23 set July 4 for submission of probe report in the case. Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed the order, taking into cognizance the First Information Report (FIR) of the case.

Victim’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed the case on May 22 with capital&’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.

Anwarul Azim, a three-time MP and also President of Kaliganj Upazila unit Awami League, went to India on May 12 on a personal visit for treatment. He went missing on May 13 after going out of the flat he was residing 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 is believed to have been strangled to death and his body cut into pieces. - Special Correspondent