The investigation into the suspected murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar has revealed gory details which suggest he was honey-trapped before being strangled and brutally dismembered.
Shocking details of gruesome murder have emerged as the CBI zeroed in on Jihad Hawladar, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, residing in Mumbai. Hawladar is alleged to have played a key role in the murder which has kept police on tenterhooks.
According to sources privy to the investigation, killers unleashed all sorts of brutality from strangling, skinning to chopping Anar up at an apartment in the New Town area of Kolkata. Hawaldar, who resided in Mumbai and arrested him, spilled beans on the high profile murder.
The suspect is said to be a resident of an area in West Bengal close to the international border with Bangladesh. The police are questioning him as to why he met Anwarul and what they discussed. The police however have not divulged the identity of the detained person.
Anwarul arrived in Kolkata on May 12 and stayed at his friend Gopal Biswas’s residence in the city’s Baranagar area for two days before going missing. He maintained communication with the family until May 14. On May 16, a call was made from the MP’s phone to his personal assistant, Abdur Rauf.
Unfortunately, Rauf missed the call, and subsequent attempts to call back were unsuccessful as the phone was switched off by then. Since then, the MP has remained unreachable. Biswas filed a general diary report regarding his disappearance at the Baranagar Police Station on May 18.
However, the police believe the MP could have been “lured” into a New Town flat by a woman and then murdered by contract killers. CID officials said that investigation indicated that the Bangladeshi parliamentarian fell into a honey trap laid by a woman who was also close to the victim’s friend.
“It seems, Anwarul was lured into the New Town flat by the woman. We suspect he was murdered soon after he went to the flat,” he added. The CID is examining the CCTV footage which showed the MP entering the flat with a man and a woman.
The unidentified man and woman were seen exiting the apartment multiple times between May 15 and May 17. Police said the duo was later seen coming out of the flat with a big trolley suitcase.
A primary probe into the incident revealed that the MP’s close friend, a US citizen, had paid around Rs 5 crore to those involved in the crime. The ‘close friend’ owns a flat in Kolkata and is probably in the US at present, said police.