CID Recovers Human Bones from Bank of Canal in Kolkata

 Kolkata: Weeks after the brutal murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar under mysterious circumstances in Kolkata, the criminal investigation department (CID) of the West Bengal Police recovered his skeletal remains from Bhangar in South 24 Parganas on Sunday.

The breakthrough recovery was based on the statement of Siam Hossain, an accused who was arrested by the CID from Bongaon in North 24 Parganas on June 7 in the Awami League leader’s murder that took place at Sanjiva Gardens housing complex in New Town on May 21.

Siam, who has been in the CID custody, told the investigators that he had disposed of the body parts of the Bangladeshi MP on the South Eastern bank of Bagjola Canal at Krishnamati village in Bijoyganj Bazar of Bhangar with the help of another arrested accused Jihad Hawladar, who is a butcher by profession.

On Sunday morning, multiple parts of human bones, including some long ones, were recovered by the state detective agency from the same spot in presence of Central Forensic Science Laboratory experts. They were later sent for forensic examination followed by a DNA test for confirmation.

An unnatural death case has been initiated at Bijoyganj Bazar. So far five persons were arrested in the sensational case. While three persons were arrested by the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, CID arrested Hossain and Hawladar.

The mastermind of the murder, Aktaruzzaman Shahin, who is a US citizen and had been a long-term business partner of the slain MP, is still absconding.