A court in West Bengal has placed Md Siam Hossain, one of the prime suspects in lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar murder, on a 14-day remand.
Siam was produced before a Barasat court on Saturday after he was taken to India from Nepal. Earlier, Nepal police arrested him from India-Nepal border area.
The Chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Harun Or Rashid said, "We have three people arrested in the murder of Anwarul Azim Anar." Two are arrested in India. Besides, all those who are involved in this murder will be brought under the law. That all those involved in the murder of MP Anwarul Azim Anna will be brought under the law.
Harun Or Rashid said, We have arrested Kazi Kamal Ahmed Babu alias Gas Babu from Jhenaidah. I am interrogating him, he has not yet been formally arrested.
On Friday, DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman informed media that Nepal police handed Siam over to Indian police on Friday.
Siam is close to the mastermind Akhtaruzzaman Shahin, who fled to the US from Kathmandu in Nepal.
On May 12, MP Anar went to India from Kaliganj in Jhenidah through Darshana-Gede border in Chuadanga district for treatment. He went to the house of his friend Gopal Biswas on Mandalpara Lane of Barahnagar police station in West Bengal. The next day he left the house saying to see the doctor. Since then, Anwarul Azim had been missing.
Five days after leaving home, friend Gopal Biswas filed a GD regarding Anwarul Azims missing with Barahnagar police station on May 18. Even then, this three-time MP was not found. On Wednesday (May 22), news suddenly spread that Anwarul Azim Anar was murdered in room BU 56 of a high-rise residential building called Sanjeeva Gardens in the New Town area of Kolkata. Traces of blood were found inside the house. But the body was not found in the house.
His daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed a case at Dhakas Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on May 22 in connection with the incident.
