Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded Shilasti Rahman’s confessional statement in the case of kidnapping with intention to murder MP Anwarul Azim Anar.
Extra Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka on Tuesday recorded the depositions of Shilasti, who is also known as a mastermind in the murder.
Recording the statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the court sent Shilasti to the jail.
On May 31, the court granted a 5-day remand to three accused including Shilasti for interrogation.
During remand, Shilasti Rahman agreed to confess in a court.
Later, the Investigation Officer of the case, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Detective Police (DB) Mahfuzur Rahman, pleaded to court for recording Shilasti’s confessional statement.
Based on this, the court on Tuesday recorded Shilasti Rahman’s statement.
Earlier, another court granted an 8-day remand for questioning the three accused in connection to MP Anar murder on May 24.
MP Anar’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdoush Dorin filed the case of kidnapping with intent to murder at the capital’s Sher-e-bangla Nagar Police Station on May 22.
On May 12, MP Anar of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League left his friend Gopal Biswas’s home in Kolkata of India, after which he remained incommunicado.
The same day, his daughter filed a police complaint in Dhaka and the kidnapping case was registered.
On the other hand in Kolkata, Biswas filed a missing complaint with Baranagar Police Station.
The investigators have found that Anar, who belonged to Bangladesh’s Khulna district, arrived in Kolkata on May 12. He had allegedly told his family that he was going to Kolkata for a medical check-up.
On May 15, the police acted on a tip-off and reached the flat in New Town, where they found blood stains.
Investigators from the two countries then claimed the MP for the Jhenaidah-4 constituency had been murdered.
Blood samples from the flat have been sent for a forensic examination, where they will match with the blood of the MP’s daughter, Mumtarin Ferdoush Dorin, who is likely to come to Kolkata Wednesday.