MP Azim murder: Three accused put on 5-day fresh remand

A Dhaka court has placed three accused in MP Anwarul Azim Anar murder case on a five-day fresh remand. 

Those remanded are Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, Faisal Ali Saji alias Tanvi Bhuiyan, and Celesty Rahman.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanto Islam Mollick passed the order on Friday (May 31) after police had produced them before the court.

MP Azim went to Kolkata on 11 May for medical treatment and remained untraced since 14 May.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on 22 May said the MP was brutally killed at a flat in New Town, near Kolkata. A case was filed on 22 May following the death of Azim.

Earlier, the court granted an eight-day remand to the three accused arrested in connection with the murder.

Azim, a three-time MP from Jhenaidah-4 in Bangladesh’s Khulna district, is suspected to have been murdered in a Kolkata apartment