DHAKA, A Dhaka court today scrapped pleas for bail by
accused Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan and Foysal Ali Saji alias
Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case lodged over abduction and murder of Awami League
lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tahmina Haque passed the order as counsel of
Shimul and Tanvir pleaded for their bail.
Earlier, separate courts showed Shimul, Tanvir, and Silisti Rahman arrested
in the case and placed them on a total 13-day remand each on two terms. The
three have already given confessional statements in the case.
The victim’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed the case on May 22 with
the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Anwarul, a three-time MP and also president of Kaliganj Upazila Unit Awami
League (AL), went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive
treatment. He went missing on May 13 after leaving the flat in Kolkata’s
Borah Nagar area.
According to the Kolkata police sources, Anwarul was ta
ken to a flat in New
Town area in Kolkata, where he was believed to be strangled to death and his
body was cut into pieces.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha