Friend Paid Rs 5 Cr to Murder Bangladesh MP: West Bengal CID

Kolkata: The initial investigation by the West Bengal CID into the “murder” of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar has revealed one of his friends had paid around Rs 5 crore to kill him.

Anar arrived in Kolkata on May 12 and went missing since May 13. According to Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, the Bangladesh MP was found murdered and three people have been arrested.

The initial probe into the “murder” of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar revealed that one of his friends had paid around Rs 5 crore to kill the neighbouring country’s parliamentarian, a senior police officer said here on Thursday. This friend of the Awami League MP owns a flat in Kolkata, and is suspected to be in the US at present, police sources said.

The search for the missing MP began six days when Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata and an acquaintance of the Bangladeshi politician, filed a complaint with the local police on May 18. Anar had stayed at Biswas’s house in Kolkata.

In his complaint, Biswas claimed that the Bangladesh MP went incommunicado since May 17, which prompted him to file a missing complaint a day later.

West Bengal CID is investigating the case.