The Police's investigation into the murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar has revealed that he was skinned, chopped up in an apartment in Kolkata and disposed of in several plastic packets across the city.
Jhenaidah-4 MP arrived in Kolkata on 12 May for medical treatment and reportedly went missing two days later. He was later found dead in an apartment in New Town on 22 May.
According to those involved in the investigation, Anar’s childhood friend and business partner, Aktaruzzaman Shaheen, US citizen, was the mastermind of the gruesome murder. Shaheen planned to kill the MP in response to a business conflict.
The West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested one suspect in connection with the incident.
The accused, Jihad Hawladar, a professional butcher, was a resident of Barakpur in Bangladesh's Khulna district and was staying in Mumbai illegally. Hawladar arrived in Kolkata around two months ago, the report quotes sources as saying.
During interrogation, Hawladar confessed that he and four other Bangladeshi nationals suffocated and killed the MP at the New Town flat. He claimed that the murder was carried out on the orders of Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen, CID sources said.
They then deskinned the MP’s body and minced the flesh to destroy the identity of Anar. The bones were then broken into pieces and packed in several plastic packets and scattered at different locations.
Police suspect that the MP could have been “lured” into the flat by a woman and then murdered by contract killers.
“Investigation indicated that the Bangladeshi MP fell into a honey trap laid by a woman who was also close to the victim’s friend. It seems, Anar was lured into the New Town flat by the woman. We suspect he was murdered soon after he went to the flat,” PTI quoted an official as saying.
The CID is examining the CCTV footage which showed Anar entering the flat with a man and a woman, the officer said.
The officer said, “In the CCTV footage, the politician was seen entering the flat with the two persons. The duo was later seen coming out and again re-entering the flat the next day, but the MP was not seen again.”
The police said, “A huge amount of money, around Rs 5 crore, was paid by Shaheen to the contract killers to execute the crime.”
During the investigation, CID found blood stains inside the New Town flat and also recovered several plastic bags, which they believe were used to dump the body parts.
The police said, “circumstantial evidence indicated that the Bangladeshi politician was first strangulated, and then his body was cut into several pieces.”
The search for the body parts was underway.
