Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner and Chief of the Detective Branch (DB), Mohammad Harunor Rashid, has said Jhenaidah District Awami League General Secretary, Saidul Karim Mintu, will be interrogated regarding his knowledge about the murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar.
Mintu was placed on remand, and authorities will investigate whether he was a financier or an instigator of the murder, the DB chief said during a press conference at his office on Minto Road on Thursday afternoon.
"We obtained some information from the statements of killers Shimul Bhuiyan and Gas Babu. Based on this, Mintu was detained and questioned, but he could not provide any answers. He needs to be questioned extensively. Therefore, we arrested him and handed him over to the court. Subsequently, the court granted an eight-day remand for Mintu," said Harun.
The DB Chief added that Mintu would be questioned about why his representative, Gas Babu, met with Shimul Bhuiyan after arriving in Dhaka. "We will ask if there was any monetary transaction related to the murder."
The Detective Branch (DB) of police detained Saidul Karim Mintu from the capital’s Dhanmondi area on June 11. He was later shown arrested in connection with the case.
Besides, on June 9, Jhenaidah District Awami League Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Kazi Kamal Ahmed Babu was remanded by the court for 7 days.
MP Anar crossed the Darshana-Gede border into India for treatment on May 12. Anar went to his Indian friend Gopal Biswas’s home in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal.
The following day, he went out at noon to see a doctor and was supposed to return in the evening.
However, he apparently went to Delhi instead and sent a WhatsApp message to Biswas, saying he would call if necessary.
Since then, he could not be reached by phone.
On May 18, Gopal Biswas filed a GD regarding Anar's disappearance at Barahnagar police station. But this member of parliament who has served three times in a row has not been found.
On May 22, news spread that Anar was murdered in flat number BU 56 of a residential building called Sanjiva Gardens in the New Town area near Kolkata. Traces of blood were found inside the house. But the body was not found there.
