A Dhaka court on Monday denied the remand petition for Awami League leader Kazi Kamal Ahmed alias Gas Babu, arrested in a case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ataullah passed the order in the afternoon.
Keraniganj jail super has been ordered to send Gas Babu to Jhenaidah Central Jail within 10 working days.
The court ordered a drive led by the Jhenaidah judicial magistrate to recover three mobile phones used by Babu.
Mahfuzur Rahman, assistant commissioner of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the case investigation officer, pleaded for a five-day remand for Babu.
Dhaka Metropolitan Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu represented the state.
On behalf of Babu, Lawyer ASM Abul Kashem Khan filed a bail petition seeking cancellation of the remand.
After hearing both sides, the court rejected the remand petition and ordered the operation to recover the mobile phones within 10 working days.
Lawyer ASM Abul Kashem Khan provided this information on behalf of the accused.
On June 6, a team from Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained Babu from the Adarshapara area of Jhenaidah city. Later, he was shown arrested in the case.
On June 9, the court approved a seven-day remand for the accused, Babu. During the remand, Babu agreed to give a voluntary confession. The case investigator, Assistant Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman of the Detective Branch, applied to record his statement.
On June 14, Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim recorded his statement, after which he was sent to jail.
Earlier, in this case, Shimul Bhuiyan, Tanvir Islam and Silisti Rahman had given confessional statements to the court.
They are currently in jail.
According to the related sources, the name of Kazi Kamal alias Gas Babu came up in the statement of Shimul Bhuiyan under section 164, one of the accused in the case, a once extremist terrorist of Khulna region.
Shimul was contacted by Babu via WhatsApp. After the killing of Azim, the killers took off his clothes and took pictures. The photo was sent to Babu's WhatsApp messenger.
The Jhenaidah-4 MP crossed the Darshana-Gede border into India for treatment on May 12. He stayed at his friend Gopal Biswas’s home in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
The following day, he left to see a doctor at noon and was expected to return in the evening. However, a WhatsApp message from his phone to Biswas stated that he went to Delhi instead and would call if necessary.
Since then, he could not be reached by phone. Eventually, the government confirmed his death on May 22, citing Indian police.