Kolkata: Initial investigation into the “murder” of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar has revealed that one of his friends had paid a contract killer of around Rs 5 crore to kill him, a senior police official said on Thursday. Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said Anar, who was missing in Kolkata since May 13, has been killed and three people have been arrested. West Bengal Police had said the case was being investigated by the state CID.
The officer said, “It was a planned murder. An old friend of the MP had paid a huge amount (about Rs five crore) to kill him. The Awami League MP’s friend is an American citizen and has a flat in Kolkata, he said. CID IG Akhilesh Chaturvedi had on Wednesday said that police had “reliable inputs” that Anar was “probably murdered”, but his body has not been recovered yet. Asked whether the police had found blood stains at the apartment in New Town on the outskirts of Kolkata (where the MP was last known to be there on May 13), Chaturvedi said, “Our forensic team Investigating the suspected crime scene. It is too early to say anything about this.”
MP came to Kolkata on 12 May
The missing MP had reportedly arrived in Kolkata on May 12 for treatment. The search for him began six days later after Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata and an acquaintance of the Bangladeshi politician, filed a complaint with the local police on May 18. Anar stayed at Biswas’s house after arriving here. In his complaint, Biswas said Anar left his Baranagar residence on the afternoon of May 13 to meet a doctor. He had said he would return home for dinner. Biswas claimed the Bangladesh MP had not been in contact since May 17, forcing him to file a missing person complaint a day later. (PTI)
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