Jhenaidah Awami League's Relief and Welfare Secretary Kazi Kamal Ahmed alias Gas Babu on Friday gave a confessional statement in a case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar.
Babu is the fourth accused to have given a confessional statement in the case so far.
Police produced the accused Babu before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim.
Later, the court recorded Babu’s statement under section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure for two hours.
Later, he was sent to jail.
The fifth suspect,Jhenaidah District Awami League General Secretary Saidul Karim Mintu, remains in custody on an eight-day remand.
Earlier, 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 Sunday, he was produced before the court by the police. Following a thorough investigation, the investigation officer of the case, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mahfuzur Rahman, applied for a 10-day remand.
The Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan approved a seven-day remand after the hearing.
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.
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.