A Dhaka court on Monday scrapped bail pleas submitted by accused Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan and Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP 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.
Anwarul Azim Anar, a lawmaker from the ruling Awami League, 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, West Bengal.
The following day, he left to see a doctor at around noon and was expected to return in the evening. However, a WhatsApp message from his phone to Biswas said that he had gone to Delhi instead and would call if necessary.
Since then, he could not be reached by phone. Eventually, the Bangladesh government confirmed his death on May 22, citing Indian police.