Staff Reporter:
A team of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) left for Nepal on Saturday morning to investigate the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar.
DB chief Md Harun Or Rashid led the team which included two members from the Detective Branch and another from the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB).
While talking to reporters at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Harun said he heard that Siam, an associate of the murder’s mastermind Akhteruzzaman Shahin, was detained in Nepal.
“Besides, other people involved in the killing might have gone into hiding in the country [Nepal]. Considering all aspects, we are going to Kathmandu for the sake of investigation. We will seek assistance from the police there.”
He said the arrested accused, now under the DB custody, have divulged important information regarding the murder and those would be crosschecked there.
On 26 May, Harun led a DB team to Kolkata to investigate the murder and returned home on 30 May.
On 31 May, a Dhaka court placed three accused – Aman Ullah alias Shimul Bhuiyan, 56, a senior leader of the Purba Banglar Communist Party, Celesty Rahman, 22, and Faisal Ali alias Shaji alias Tanvir Bhuiyan, 30, on a five-day remand each afresh after the expiry of an eight-day remand each.
Awami League MP Anwarul Azim crossed the Darshana-Gede border into India for treatment on 12 May. He stayed at his friend Gopal Biswas’s house in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
The following day, he left the house to see a doctor at noon and was expected to return in the evening. However, a WhatsApp message from his phone to Biswas reads that he went to Delhi instead and would call if necessary.
Since then, he could not be reached over the phone. Eventually, the government confirmed his death on 22 May, citing Indian police.
