Tanvir Bhuiyan, an accused in the murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, gave a confessional statement before a court on Tuesday.
Police produced the accused before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACCM) Tofazzal Hossain as he wanted to give a confessional statement. The court later recorded Tanvir’s statement under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code and sent him to jail, reports BSS.
Earlier on June 3, the court recorded a confessional statement of another accused Silisti Rahman regarding the case.
A court here on May 31 had placed Tanvir, Silisti, and Shimul Bhuiyan on five days' remand each in the case.
Earlier on May 24, the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi had placed them on eight-day remand.
Another separate court on May 23 set July 4 for submitting the probe report in the case. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed the order, accepting the first information report (FIR) in the case.
The victim’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed the case on May 22 with the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Anwarul, a three-time lawmaker and also president of Kaliganj upazila unit of Awami League, went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive treatment. He went missing on May 13 after going out of the flat where he was residing in Kolkata’s Borah Nagar area.
According to the Kolkata police, Anwarul was taken to a flat in New Town in Kolkata, where he was believed to be strangulated to death and his body was cut into many pieces.