Police probe ‘murder’ of Bangladesh MP in Bengal
The HinduHours after the Bangladesh government declared that Awami League MP Mohammad Anwarul Azim ‘Anar’, who went missing from Kolkata on May 13, had been “brutally murdered” in the city, the West Bengal Police on Wednesday said that investigations into the case of the politician’s killing had been taken up by the State Criminal Investigation Department. Stating that the police had “reliable inputs” that Mr. Azim “may have been murdered”, Akhilesh Chaturvedi, Inspector-General of Police, CID, said that the police were yet to recover the victim’s body. On whether the police found blood stains in the apartment of the luxury condominium in New Town in Kolkata's outskirts where the MP’s whereabouts were last traced on May 13, Mr. Chaturvedi said, “Our forensic team is examining the suspected crime scene. Mr. Biswas alleged that the Bangladeshi MP went incommunicado on May 17 which prompted him to file a missing person police complaint a day later.