Bangladesh police imagine Shilasti Rahman ‘honey-trapped’ MP Anwarul Azim Anar.
Kolkata:
He got here right here – to pinch a macabre quote from Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime – to die.
Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar got here to Kolkata on Could 12 for medical remedy. He was staying with a pal, Gopal Biswas, until he went lacking a couple of days later. He was final seen at a high-end condo advanced in New City, on the outskirts of the Bengal capital, the place he was probably murdered and his physique skinned, chopped up, and items stuffed into plastic packets dumped throughout the town.
Who killed Mr Anar? Why? The place did he go on Could 14? These are a few of the questions police in Kolkata and Bangladesh’s Dhaka are racing to reply. Cops within the former metropolis have made some progress on the primary query; an unlawful Bangladeshi immigrant, Jihad Hawladar, has been arrested and has confessed to his involvement within the homicide of the MP and the dismemberment of the physique.
And now Dhaka Police might have answered one other query – how was Mr Anar lured to his demise?
They’re trying into the position of Shilasti Rahman, a girl who the cops imagine was acquainted with considered one of his killers and ‘honey-trapped’ the Bangladesh MP, delivering him to his finish.
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“The investigation signifies the MP fell right into a ‘honey lure’. It appears he was lured by the lady. We suspect he was murdered quickly after he went to the flat,” a Kolkata cop relayed information from Dhaka.
CCTV footage from the condo had confirmed Mr Anar coming into the flat with a girl.
Shilasti Rahman has been detained by Dhaka police.
In the meantime, and nonetheless the investigation into Shilasti Rahman’s position might pan out, police in Kolkata made a giant breakthrough Friday morning in arresting Jihad Hawladar, who has directed the cops to at the least 4 different Bangladesh nationals who might have been concerned within the ugly homicide.
That listing consists of Akhtaruzzaman, a United States citizen of Bangladeshi origin, who is perhaps the mastermind and was recognized to Shilasti Rahman. He might have paid Rs 5 crore to Mr Anar’s killers.
Akhtaruzzaman’s location is unknown at the moment; police imagine he could also be within the US.
The flat the place Mr Anar was in all probability murdered and dismembered was rented to a pal of Akhtaruzzaman by the proprietor, who’s a state authorities worker.
Surprising particulars have emerged of how the crime was deliberate and executed.
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Hawladar claimed his accomplices and he killer Mr Anar, skinned the physique and eliminated the flesh, mincing it to take away any chance of identification. The stays – the bones have been reduce into small items – have been packed into plastic baggage, transported and dumped throughout Kolkata, he claimed.
The cops additionally imagine some physique elements have been saved in a fridge within the flat, presumably earlier than they is also dumped. CCTV footage reveals one of many accused exiting the flat with a big suitcase.
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