KOLKATA: The preliminary probe into the “murder” of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar revealed that one in every of his shut associates, a US citizen, had paid round Rs 5 crore to kill him, a senior police officer claimed right here on Thursday. The Awami League MP’s buddy owns a flat in Kolkata, and might be within the US at current, he mentioned.
Police additionally mentioned that the flat in Kolkata’s New Town space, the place the Bangladesh MP was final seen coming into, was rented out to his buddy by its proprietor, an excise division worker. “It was a well-planned murder. A huge amount of money, around Rs 5 crore was paid by an old friend of the MP to kill him. Further investigation is underway,” the officer instructed PTI.
Anar, who went lacking in Kolkata on May 13, was discovered murdered and three folks have been arrested, Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan had mentioned on Wednesday. The West Bengal Police had mentioned investigation of the case has been taken up by the state CID.
Akhilesh Chaturvedi, IG, CID, had Wednesday mentioned police had “reliable inputs” that Anar “may have been murdered”, however his physique was but to be recovered. Asked whether or not the police discovered blood stains within the house of a luxurious condominium in New Town in Kolkata’s outskirts, the place the MP’s whereabouts had been final traced on May 13, Chaturvedi mentioned, “Our forensic team is examining the suspected crime scene. It’s too early to speak about that.” The state CID has discovered blood stains contained in the New Town flat and in addition recovered a number of plastic baggage, which they consider had been used to dump the physique elements.
Circumstantial proof signifies that the MP was first strangulated after which his lifeless physique was mutilated in a number of elements, police claimed. “The body parts were probably put inside plastic bags and scattered at different locations. We also suspect that some parts were kept in a refrigerator and we have collected samples,” the officer mentioned.
The seek for the lacking MP, who reportedly arrived in Kolkata on May 12 to endure medical therapy, started six days later after Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata and an acquaintance of the Bangladeshi politician, filed a grievance with the native police on May 18. Anar had stayed at Biswas’s home upon arrival.
In his grievance, Biswas said that Anar left his Baranagar residence for a health care provider’s appointment within the afternoon of May 13, whereas stating that he could be again house for dinner. Biswas claimed that the Bangladesh MP went incommunicado since May 17, which prompted him to file a lacking grievance a day later.
