STAFF CORRESPONDENT:

A court in Dhaka on May 4 recorded Shilasti Rahman’s confessional statement in a case of kidnapping with intent to murder MP Anwarul Azim Anar.

Extra Chief Metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka on Tuesday recorded the testimonial of Shilasti, who is also the mastermind in the murder.

After recording the statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the court sent Shilasti to jail.

On May 31, the court granted a 5-day remand to three accused including Shilasti for interrogation.

During that remand, Shilasti Rahman agreed to confess before the court.

Later, the investigating officer of the case, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Detective Police (DB) Mahfuzur Rahman, pleaded to court for recording Shilasti’s statement.

Based on this, the court today recorded Shilasti Rahman’s testimonial.

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 a case of kidnapping with intent to murder at the capital’s Sherebangla Nagar police station on May 22.

On May 12, the MP 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 a kidnapping case was registered.

On the other hand in Kolkata, Biswas filed a missing complaint at the 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 be matched with the blood of the MP’s daughter, Mumtarin Ferdoush Dorin, who is likely to come to Kolkata on June 5.