Staff Reporter:
No specific reason has been found yet behind the killing of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar, said chief of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Harun-Or-Rashid on Saturday.
“However, there might be many reasons, including business transactions and establishing supremacy, behind the killing of the lawmaker,” he said while speaking at a press briefing held at the DB conference room.
Besides, a three-member team of the DB police will leave for India by Saturday night or Sunday morning, he said.
Apart from Bangladesh police, Kolkata police are also investigating the murder of the MP and they also visited Bangladesh, Harun said.
“The killers took MP Anar to the flat after abduction and then the killers took one of his phones and went to another place to dodge that he was in another place. Besides, the killers came to the Benapole bordering area with four mobile phone sets after killing him and then called different political rivals to implicate them in the murder.”
Replying to a question why police termed it a murder whereas no body was found, the DB chief said there are so many cases where the body has not been found for years.
MP Azim went to Kolkata on 11 May for medical treatment and he remained untraced since 14 May.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on 22 May said the MP was brutally killed at a flat in New Town, near Kolkata. A case was filed on 22 May following the death of Azim.
A Dhaka court on Friday granted an eight-day remand to three accused arrested in connection with the murder.
