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Kolkata: Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anwar, who was allegedly murdered in Kolkata, was skinned and chopped up before being disposed of across the city, sources in West Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) told India Today. The grisly details of the murder of Anwarul Anwar emerged on Friday after a CID team arrested one suspect in connection with the incident.
CID sources said the suspect, Jihad Hawladar, a professional butcher, was a resident of Barakpur in Bangladesh’s Khulna district and was staying in Mumbai illegally. Jihad Hawladar was brought to Kolkata from Mumbai two months ago on hire by the prime accused Akhtaruzzaman, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin and the MP’s close friend, CID sources claimed.
Hawladar, who was staying at a hotel near the Kolkata airport, was given a share of the Rs 5 crore that Akhtaruzzaman spent on killing the Bangladeshi MP, sources further said.
During interrogation, Hawladar confessed that he and four other Bangladeshi nationals smothered and killed the MP at a flat in Kolkata’s New Town area.
The Bangladesh MP was last seen entering the flat. Police had said the flat was rented out to the MP’s friend by its owner, an excise department employee.
Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the MP, who went missing from Kolkata on May 13, was murdered, and three people were arrested. His body is yet to be recovered.
The three-time Bangladeshi MP had reportedly arrived in Kolkata on May 12 for medical treatment. He initially stayed at the residence of his family friend Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata.
The next day, on May 13, Anwarul Anwar left Biswas’s home to visit a doctor. However, the MP went incommunicado since May 17, prompting Biswas to file a missing complaint a day later.
