TDS DESK:

A Dhaka court has placed Awami League leader Kazi Kamal Ahmed on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the abduction of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim.

Assistant Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman of Detective Brach (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), also the investigation officer of the case, produced the accused before the court and sought a 10-day remand.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan placed the accused on a seven-day remand instead.

At that time, the lawyers of the accused appealed for bail seeking cancellation of the remand.

On Saturday, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) chief Additional Commissioner Harunor Rashid said that the detained Awami League leader Kazi Kamal Ahmed was being interrogated.

Anwarul Azim Anar, a lawmaker from the ruling Awami League, crossed the Darshana-Gede border into India for treatment on May 12. He stayed at his friend Gopal Biswas’s home in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

The following day, he left to see a doctor at around noon and was expected to return in the evening. However, a WhatsApp message from his phone to Biswas said that he had gone to Delhi instead and would call if necessary.

Since then, he could not be reached by phone. Eventually, the Bangladesh government confirmed his death on May 22, citing Indian police.