Jhenaidah-4 MP goes missing after going to Kolkata for treatment

Anwarul Azim Anar, the lawmaker from Jhenaidah-4 constituency, has been missing apparently since May 14 in Kolkata.
Mr Anar went to Kolkata in India on May 11 for treatment.
Family members of Anar met on Sunday with the official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detective branch in the capital.
Chief of DMP DB Harun-or-Rashid told the media that they were in contact with the Indian officials to locate him.
UNB report adds: The Prime Minister has also been informed about the matter, the MP Anar's personal assistant, Abdur Rauf told the media.
Meanwhile, Anar's nephew Simon and three others went to India to try and find him. But they could not give any good news till Sunday afternoon.
According to party insiders, moments before his last known activity, He asked his manager for some money. At that time, he was in a private car with some Indian friends after attending a wedding ceremony. There is no trace of MP Anar since taking this money, they claimed.
Kaliganj Municipal Mayor Ashraful Alam said on Sunday afternoon that he spoke with the MP the day after he left for India. He did not know anything since then.
Saidul Karim Mintu, general secretary of the Jhenaidah district unit Awami League, said that he came to know about the matter from the MP's family and upazila Awami League leaders. "We have informed the party high command in this regard," he added.
Jhenaidah Superintendent of Police Azim ul-Ahsan said, Awami League leaders and public representatives of Kaliganj verbally informed us about MP Anar's disappearance.
"Since the incident is from a different state, we have informed it to the higher authorities," added the SP.
Regarding his missing, Bangladesh High Commissioner in New Delhi and Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata are in touch with the relevant authorities to try to know what exactly happened, a diplomatic source told UNB.
The Ministry of External Affairs has also been informed, the source said.

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