Member of Parliament from Jhenaidah-4 Constituency Anwarul Azim Anar went to India and went missing for four days, his family said.
The family has informed the Detective Police (DB) that the MP's relatives have been out of touch since Thursday (May 16) after he went to India for treatment. Relatives are worried about this.
Anwarul Azim's daughter Mumtarin Ferdous went to the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police (DB) office on Sunday afternoon. He met Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner (DB) Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid and informed about the matter.
Mumtarin Ferdous told reporters at the DB office that her father went missing in India. He came to the DB office to report the matter.
DB Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid told reporters, "Member of Parliament Anwarul Azim uses a Bangladeshi mobile phone and an Indian mobile phone in India. Numbers of two are sometimes found closed and sometimes open. The issue is also being discussed with the Indian police force. Trying to find out what happened to Anwarul Azim is going on.
Anwarul Azim's personal assistant Abdur Rauf told reporters that on May 12, MP Anwarul Azim went to India through the Darshana border for treatment. He was in contact with the family till May 14. However, on May 16, Abdur Rauf received a call from the MP's cell phone. He could not pick up the phone. Later, when he called again, the phone was switched off. Since then, contact with the Member of Parliament has been lost.