Suspect Siam led police to 'bones' in canal in West Bengal

Siam Hossain, one of the suspects in the murder of Jhenaidah MP Anwarul Azim Anar, has led police to 'bones' found in the Bagjola canal in West Bengal, according to Indian and BD media reports.

Police say that forensic tests will be conducted to determine if these bones belong to the MP, reports Anandabazar.

West Bengal media outlets published news and pictures of the search on Sunday. Some publications even included photos of the bones found.

However, the Criminal Investigation Department - the agency in charge of investigating Anar's murder - has not made an official announcement of the bones being recovered.

In another development in Dhaka, a court Sunday placed Jhenaidah district Awami League leader Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu on seven-day remand in the case lodged over murder of Anar.

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.

Meanwhile in Kolkata, according to Sangbad Protidin, based on the information received from Siam during the interrogation, the CID took him to the Bagjola canal on Sunday morning.

A DMG team of the Navy and the Kolkata police personnel also accompanied the CID.

First, they searched the canal with divers. Later, several bones were recovered from a bush.

Anar, a three-time MP from Jhenaidah-4 and president of the Kaliganj Upazila unit of the Awami League went to India for medical treatment on May 11.

Initially, he stayed at the house of his friend and gold trader Gopal Biswas in Kolkata's Baranagar. However, he went out one day and never came back.

Later, Gopal filed a GD at the local police station, triggering investigations in both countries. On the morning of May 22, Indian media reported that MP Anar had been murdered at an apartment in New Town.

Based on information provided by Indian police, detective police in Bangladesh arrested three suspects. They were also taken into remand for interrogation.

The three are Amanulla Sayeed alias Shimul Bhuiyan alias Shihab aka Fazl Mohammad Bhuiyan, 56, Tanvir Bhuiyan, 30, and Celesty Rahman, 22.

Detective police also arrested another individual from Jashore in connection with the murder.

The detainee, Saiful Alam Molla Member, is an associate of Shimul Bhuiyan, leader of the extremist outfit Purbo Banglar Communist Party, who has been arrested on murder charges.