BSS
  10 Jun 2024, 17:36

Bail plea of Shimul, Tanvir scrapped in MP Anwarul Azim murder case


  
DHAKA, June 10, 2024 (BSS) - A Dhaka court today scrapped pleas for bail by 
accused Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan and Foysal Ali Saji alias 
Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case lodged over abduction and murder of Awami League 
lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India.
 
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tahmina Haque passed the order as counsel of 
Shimul and Tanvir pleaded for their bail.
 
Earlier, separate courts showed Shimul, Tanvir, and Silisti Rahman arrested 
in the case and placed them on a total 13-day remand each on two terms. The 
three have already given confessional statements in the case.
 
The 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 (AL), went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive 
treatment. He went missing on May 13 after leaving the flat in Kolkata's 
Borah Nagar area. 
 
According to the Kolkata police sources, Anwarul was taken to a flat in New 
Town area in Kolkata, where he was believed to be strangled to death and his 
body was cut into pieces.