<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan made the sensational disclosure Wednesday (May 22, 2024) that Anwarul Azim Anar, MP for Jhenidah-4, had been murdered in West Bengal, while on a medical trip to India. He said the slain MP’s remains had been found in a flat in New Town, Kolkata.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Awami League MP Anwarul Azim Anar, who went missing in India, was murdered at a Calcutta flat,” Khan told journalists. “So far, we have come to know that all the killers involved are Bangladeshis. It was a planned murder.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police in Kolkata however have said no body has been found, and they are continuing their search in this regard. All that has been found are blood stains in a flat in suburban New Town where Azim was seen entering with three others on May 13.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is known so far is that Azim went to Kolkata. He entered India through the Darshana border (connecting Bangladesh’s Khulna with Nadia) on May 12 for a medical consultation, and started staying with a friend, Gopal Biswas, a gold trader, in the Baranagar area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around 1.40pm on May 13, he left Biswas’s house to meet a neurologist at a Kolkata hospital in a cab. According to The Telegraph, an influential Kolkata daily, the taxi driver who drove Azim around has told the police they had picked up another Bangladeshi national from the New Market area and from there proceeded to the flat in New Town.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The medical appointment, had there been one in the first place, was not kept.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">CCTV footage has revealed that apart from Azim, two men and a woman had entered the flat at Sanjeeva Gardens, an upmarket development in Rajarhat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over the next four days, CCTV footage shows the other three leaving the building at different times, but there is no further sighting of the MP.&nbsp; Source:&nbsp; UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>