Kolkata: The search for the body parts of Bangladeshi MP Anwarul Azim Anar continued on Thursday as West Bengal CID officials and Dhaka Metropolitan Police detectives interrogated the arrested butcher to get more information about the crime, a The officer said.
It is suspected that Anar, who was missing for a fortnight, was murdered in his New Town flat near here and his body parts were thrown into the nearby Bagjola canal. The investigators also recovered pieces of meat and hair from the septic tank of one of the flats.
"Our search is continuing in the canal. Some more samples have been collected from the sewage lines of the building where the MP was last seen entering," the officer said.We are sending them for investigation."
The detectives were also interrogating the arrested butcher and trying to get more information from the call history of his mobile phone.
“The only idea of cracking the phone call details is to get the number of the main conspirator who is sitting somewhere in the United States. If we can trace his las location, it can help us understand where he "Which route was taken to escape after committing the crime," he said.Authorities suspect that the childhood friend of the deceased Bangladeshi MLA, who had rented the New Town apartment, fled to Nepal before returning to the US via Dubai.
The officer said the daughter of the slain Awami League leader would soon reach Kolkata as they were planning to conduct DNA tests on the pieces of flesh recovered from the septic tank of the high-end apartment.
The friend, Akhtarajamuddin, is the prime suspect in the crime as detectives believe he fled to Nepal along with another accused, Siam, who had helped him hire a butcher from Bangladesh to cut up the body.
The search for the missing MP, who had reportedly arrived in Kolkata on May 12 to undergo treatment, began after Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata and an acquaintance of the Bangladeshi politician, lodged a complaint with the local police on May 18.
On arrival, Anar stayed at Biswas's house.In his complaint, Biswas said that Anar had left his Baranagar residence for a doctor's appointment on the afternoon of May 13 and he would return home for dinner.
Biswas claimed that the Bangladesh MP was not contacted on May 17, forcing him to file a missing complaint a day later.
It is suspected that Anar, who was missing for a fortnight, was murdered in his New Town flat near here and his body parts were thrown into the nearby Bagjola canal. The investigators also recovered pieces of meat and hair from the septic tank of one of the flats.
"Our search is continuing in the canal. Some more samples have been collected from the sewage lines of the building where the MP was last seen entering," the officer said.We are sending them for investigation."
The detectives were also interrogating the arrested butcher and trying to get more information from the call history of his mobile phone.
“The only idea of cracking the phone call details is to get the number of the main conspirator who is sitting somewhere in the United States. If we can trace his las location, it can help us understand where he "Which route was taken to escape after committing the crime," he said.Authorities suspect that the childhood friend of the deceased Bangladeshi MLA, who had rented the New Town apartment, fled to Nepal before returning to the US via Dubai.
The officer said the daughter of the slain Awami League leader would soon reach Kolkata as they were planning to conduct DNA tests on the pieces of flesh recovered from the septic tank of the high-end apartment.
The friend, Akhtarajamuddin, is the prime suspect in the crime as detectives believe he fled to Nepal along with another accused, Siam, who had helped him hire a butcher from Bangladesh to cut up the body.
The search for the missing MP, who had reportedly arrived in Kolkata on May 12 to undergo treatment, began after Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata and an acquaintance of the Bangladeshi politician, lodged a complaint with the local police on May 18.
On arrival, Anar stayed at Biswas's house.In his complaint, Biswas said that Anar had left his Baranagar residence for a doctor's appointment on the afternoon of May 13 and he would return home for dinner.
Biswas claimed that the Bangladesh MP was not contacted on May 17, forcing him to file a missing complaint a day later.
