West Bengal Police have recovered CCTV footage purportedly linked to an apartment near Kolkata where a Bangladesh lawmaker was last seen before his alleged brutal killing, according to sources on Friday, even as speculations over the involvement of a woman added another layer of mystery to the sensational case. Police have yet to find the body of Awami League’s Member of Parliament, Anwarul Azim Anar, and they suspect that it has been dismembered and disposed of.
In the CCTV footage, two men could be seen with a green trolley bag and plastic packets. It was, however, not clear if this footage was from before or after the alleged murder, or from inside or outside the apartment. Anar’s body is feared to have been chopped into pieces — his skin peeled and bones cut — and carried out in bags and plastic packets, police sources say..
VIDEO | Police recover CCTV visuals from the apartment in #Kolkata where #Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar was last seen with his friend.
The initial probe into the “murder” of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar revealed that one of his friends had paid around Rs 5 crore to kill the… pic.twitter.com/Dnix44WHLf
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West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) suspects the MP was lured into a New Town flat by a woman and then murdered by contract killers, according to a report in Bangladesh’s The Daily Star. Several media outlets have reported that a woman named Shilasti Rahman is under the scanner and that she was close to the mastermind of the alleged killing. She is believed to have been detained by police in Dhaka.