DHAKA, May 31, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today placed three accused in a case lodged over the murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India, on five days of fresh remand each.
 
The three accused are Tanvir Bhuiyan, Shimul Bhuiyan and Silisti Rahman.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanto Islam Mallik passed the order as police produced the trio before the court after end of their eight-day remand in the case and pleaded to place them on eight-day remand afresh.

Earlier on May 24, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi placed them on eight-day remand.

A separate court on May 23 set July 4 for submitting probe report in the case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed the order, accepting first information report (FIR) in the case.
 
Victim's daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed the case on May 22 with the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
 
Anwarul, a three-time MP and also president of Kaliganj upazila unit Awami League, went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive treatment. He went missing on May 13 after going out of the flat where he was residing in Kolkata's Borah Nagar area.
 
According to the Kolkata police sources, Anwarul was taken to a flat in New Town in Kolkata, where he is believed to be strangled to death and his body was cut into pieces.