2 remanded in MP Anar murder case

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

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ataullah passed the order after police produced the duo before the court and pleaded to place them on a 10-day remand.

A special team of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained the two in Khagrachhari, where they had been hiding, posing as devotees at a remote Kali temple for the last couple of days.

The victim's daughter, Mumtarin Ferdoush Dorin, filed the case on May 22 with the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station.

Anar, a three-time MP and president of Jhenaidah's Kaliganj upazila unit Awami League, went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive treatment. He went missing on May 13 after leaving the flat in Kolkata's Borah Nagar area.

According to Kolkata police sources, Anwarul was taken to a flat in New Town in Kolkata, where he was believed to be strangled to death and his body was cut into pieces.

Source: BSS