TDS DESK:

Amanullah who goes by the alias Shimul Bhuiyan a key accused in the Anwarul Azim Anar abduction case, had confessed before a Dhaka court that he was in charge of the men who took part in killing the Jheniadah MP Anwarul. The statement and interrogation of DB police revealed that there were three reasons behind Anwarul’s murder.

Shimul Bhuiyan said in his confessional statement that the main planner of Anwarul’s murder was fugitive Akhtaruzzaman Shahin. He had business conflicts with him over control of Anwarul’s hundi trade and gold smuggling. Besides, he had political and ideological conflicts with Shimul Bhuiyan.

Earlier, after the second round of five-day remand, Shimul Bhuiyan was produced in the court on Wednesday by the Wari detective (DB) police of DMP concerned with the investigation.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Tofazzal Hossain Shimul Bhuiyan recorded the statement of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court. Later he was sent to jail. All the three arrested in Bangladesh in this murder have given a confessional statement.

Earlier, Shimul Bhuiyan’s nephew Tanvir Bhuiyan gave a statement in the court on Tuesday (June 4).

Sources related to the investigation say that professional criminal Shimul and Tanvir have also admitted to being directly involved in this murder. He took part in the murder by suffocating Anwarul with a pillow.

Besides, last Monday (June 3), another accused Celesty Rahman stated in court.

Aktaruzzaman, a Bangladesh-born US citizen, gave him the contract to kill Azim, Shimul said in his confessional statement.

Aktaruzzaman, known in his hometown Jheniadah as Shaheen Mia, and Azim used to siphon money out of the country through hundi and were involved in gold smuggling, said Shimul.

After the two disagreed on the illegal racket, Aktaruzzaman met Shimul and told him to kill Azim.

After the killing at a flat in New Town, Kolkata, Shimul returned home on May 15, according to sources at the court and the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

After recording his statement, the court sent him to jail.

Shimul Bhuiyan, was in charge of controlling the activities of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) in Khulna, Jhenidah, and Jashore.

Azim was also involved with the PBCP, and as Shimul and Azim had a dispute over the PBCP factions, the former readily agreed to kill the MP.

As per Amanullah’s statement, the accused tried to kill Azim on two occasions in January and March this year but failed.

On April 25, Aktaruzzaman rented the New Town flat where Shimul and Celesty met the other accused five days later to make a plan. Aktaruzzaman returned to Bangladesh on May 10.

As per the direction of Aktaruzzaman and Shimul Bhuiyan, the other accused took Azim to the flat, saying that they would discuss and settle the business matters.

Shimul with the help of the other accused then killed Anwarul there.

The accused dismembered the body and flushed part of it down the toilet. Some remains were put in a trunk which was discarded in the Krisna Mati area of Kolkata.

Accused Faisal, Mustafiz, and Jihad Howlader were directly involved in the killing, Shimul said in the statement, adding that accused Jihad and Siam, arrested in Nepal, were involved in getting rid of the remains.

Jihad Howlader, who is in custody of West Bengal CID, was placed on a fresh two-day remand after the end of a 12-day one.