Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court on Monday rejected a five-day remand prayer for Jhenaidah Awami League leader Kazi Kamal Ahmed Babu alias Gas Babu in connection with the murder of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata of India.
Metropolitan Magistrate Akhtaruzzaman of Dhaka CMM Court, later ordered law enforcers to send the accused to Jhenaidah District Jail within 10 working days.
Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Investigation Officer of the case, was asked to run a drive in presence of a First-Class Magistrate to recover the mobile phone that Kamal allegedly used to communicate with Amanullah alias Shimul Bhuiyan on WhatsApp after the killing of the lawmaker in Kolkata.
The court passed the order after Mahfuzur Rahman, also Senior Assistant Commissioner of the Detective Branch of Police, produced the accused with a five-day fresh remand prayer.
Accused Kamal, Relief and Social Welfare Affairs Secretary of Jhenaidah Awami League, was taken into custody on June 7 from Jhenaidah’s Adarshapara area for his alleged involvement in the murder of Azim. After two days, he was placed on a seven-day remand.
On June 14, he admitted to communicating with Amanullah through WhatsApp on May 16, a day after Amanullah returned to Bangladesh from Kolkata.
Azim went to West Bengal, Indian state on May 12. Police of both countries believe that he was killed 10 days later in a flat in Kolkata’s New Town area.