Seven people have been arrested so far in connection with the murder of Jhenaidah-4 Constituency Member of Parliament Anwarul Azim Anar. Six of the seven have given a confessional statement under section 164 in the court in connection with the murder. Besides, the police are working to arrest others whose names have come up.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Detective) Mohammad Haroon Or Rasheed released a video message on Thursday (July 4) highlighting the murder of the parliamentarian.
In the video message, he said that Mustafiz and Faisal were arrested in the latest raid on the inaccessible hills in connection with the murder of Anwarul Azim Anar. After the arrest, the court granted them a six-day remand. In the wake of that remand, Mustafiz and Faisal told that Aktaruzzaman Shaheen arranged passports for them to go to India. From Shaheen's residence in Bashundhara, Dhaka, Faisal, a heart patient, and Mostafiz, a kidney patient, were issued visas to India by showing fake documents, fake bank statements and various other fake documents. They stayed at Shaheen's house in Dhaka until they got their visas.
Haroon Or Rashid said, after the visa was issued, Aktaruzzaman Shaheen gave Tk. 20,000 to Mostafiz and Faisal to go to India by train. On their way to India, they entered the Sanjeeva Garden in Kolkata on 10 April. On May 13, Faisal left Gopal Biswas' house and brought MP Anar to Sanjiba Garden in a red car. Then Mustafiz, Faisal and Jihad were responsible for bringing chloroform and chapati from Shaheen's PS Pintu to make him unconscious.
During interrogation, Mustafiz and Faisal also said that after the murder, when everyone left, Mustafiz and Faisal were last in that flat in Sanjiba Garden. They talked with Shaheen there too. Shaheen instructs them to leave the flat free of hair and blood stains, to tidy up and keep everything tidy. Then on May 19, Mustafiz and Faisal came to Bangladesh. Shaheen also cut the ticket to come to Bangladesh. Even after coming to Bangladesh, Mustafiz and Faisal climbed the third floor of Shaheen's house in Dhaka.
The DB chief said that when the killer of Anar's murder, Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, was arrested by the DB, Mustafiz and Faisal hid in different places with the Tk. 30,000 given by Shaheen. Then they plan to go to the temple on the remote hill and hide there in Hindu clothes.
As per the plan, Makali Puja started at Patal Kalimandir on the remote hill of Khagrachari, Hindus fell in dhoti and changed the name.
Haroon said that so far seven people have been arrested in the murder of Anwarul Azim Anar. Six of the seven have given confessional statements under Section 164 in connection with Anar's murder. Besides, the police is working to arrest those whose names have come. They will also be arrested soon.
Anwarul Azim's friend Gopal Biswas lodged a GD about Anwarul Azim's disappearance at Kolkata's Barahnagar police station on May 18, five days after he left home. Even then, the three-time Member of Parliament was not found. On May 22, news suddenly spread that Anwarul Azim was murdered in room BU 56 of a residential building called Sanjiba Gardens in the Newtown area of Kolkata. Traces of blood were found inside the flat. But the body was not found in the house. Anar's daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Doreen filed a case in Dhaka's Sher-e-bangla Nagar police station on May 22.