Jhenaidah District Awami League Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Kazi Kamal Ahmed Babu aka Gas Babu admitted responsibility and gave a statement in the case of abduction of Jhenaidah-4 Constituency Member of Parliament Anwarul Azim Anar.
Four of the five people arrested in this case admitted their responsibility and gave a statement. Mintu, the other arrested accused, is in eight-day remand.
On Friday (June 14), as the accused Babu voluntarily agreed to give a confessional statement, the investigating officer, Assistant Commissioner of Detective Police (DB) Mahfuzur Rahman requested to record it. Following the application, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim’s court recorded his statement. Then the court ordered to send him to jail.
Earlier in this case, Shimul Bhuiyan alias Shihab alias Amanullah Saeed, Tanveer Bhuiyan and Shilasti Rahman gave confessional statements in the court. They are currently in jail.
Earlier on the night of June 6, a team of Dhaka DB arrested Babu from Adarshpara area of Jhenaidah city. Later on June 9 Babu was produced in the court by the police. After that, DB Police Senior Assistant Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman requested to remand him for 10 days for proper investigation of the case. After the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan’s court granted his seven-day remand.
It is to be noted that on May 12, MP Annar went to India from Kaliganj in Jhenaidah to Darshanar Gede in Chuadanga for treatment. Went to the house of a friend named 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 he mysteriously disappeared.
Later on Wednesday (May 22), news suddenly spread that Anwarul Azim was murdered in room BU 56 of a high-rise residential building called Sanjiba Gardens in the Newtown area of Kolkata. Traces of blood were found inside the house. But the body was not found in the house.
His daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Doreen filed a case in Dhaka’s Sherbangla Nagar Police Station on May 22 in this incident.