DHAKA, June 9, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today placed Jhenaidah district Awami League leader Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu on seven-day remand in a case lodged over murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place him 10-day remand.

Babu was arrested from Jhenaidah recently by detective branch (DB) and was brought to capital on June 6.

Two separate courts earlier placed three other accused Tanvir Bhuiyan, Shimul Bhuiyan and Silisti Rahman on remand twice.

A separate Dhaka 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 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 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 believed to be strangled to death and his body was cut into pieces.