KOLKATA: The preliminary probe into the “homicide” of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar revealed that one among 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 stated.
Police additionally stated that the flat in Kolkata’s New City space, the place the Bangladesh MP was final seen getting into, was rented out to his buddy by its proprietor, an excise division worker. “It was a well-planned homicide. An enormous amount of cash, round Rs 5 crore was paid by an previous buddy of the MP to kill him. Additional investigation is underway,” the officer informed PTI.
Anar, who went lacking in Kolkata on Might 13, was discovered murdered and three individuals have been arrested, Bangladesh Dwelling Minister Asaduzzaman Khan had stated on Wednesday. The West Bengal Police had stated investigation of the case has been taken up by the state CID.
Akhilesh Chaturvedi, IG, CID, had Wednesday stated police had “dependable inputs” that Anar “could have been murdered”, however his physique was but to be recovered. Requested whether or not the police discovered blood stains within the condominium of a luxurious condominium in New City in Kolkata’s outskirts, the place the MP’s whereabouts had been final traced on Might 13, Chaturvedi stated, “Our forensic group is inspecting the suspected crime scene. It is too early to talk about that.” The state CID has discovered blood stains contained in the New City flat and likewise recovered a number of plastic baggage, which they imagine 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 physique elements had been in all probability put inside plastic baggage and scattered at completely different places. We additionally suspect that some elements had been stored in a fridge and we’ve got collected samples,” the officer stated.
The seek for the lacking MP, who reportedly arrived in Kolkata on Might 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 Might 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 Might 13, whereas stating that he can be again dwelling for dinner. Biswas claimed that the Bangladesh MP went incommunicado since Might 17, which prompted him to file a lacking grievance a day later.
