Shilasti Rahman made a confessional statement confessing her responsibility in the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar, at Kolkata, West Bengal of India.
She was produced before a court by police during her remand on Monday. As she agreed to make statement voluntarily confessing her involvement in MP Anar murder, the investigation officer of the case DB Police Senior Assistant Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman applied to the court to record her statement.
Following the application, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Tofazzal Hossain recorded her statement. After recording the statement, the court ordered to send her to jail.
The first round of remand of some accused in the case ended last Friday (May 31). They are Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, Faisal Ali Saji alias Tanveer Bhuiyan and Shilasti Rahman. After bringing them to the court, the investigating officer applied for another eight-day remand for proper investigation of the case. After the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanto Islam Mallik's court granted remand for five days each.
Earlier, around 2:30 pm on May 24, the three accused were produced at the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka. At that time, they were remanded for 10 days for investigation into the case. After the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi granted eight-day remand each of them.
Earlier on May 23, Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, Faisal Ali Saji alias Tanveer Bhuiyan and Shilasti Rahman were arrested in the kidnapping case.
On May 12, MP Annar went to India from Kaliganj in Jhenaidah through Darshana-Gede border in Chuadanga district for treatment. He went to the house of his friend Gopal Biswas on Mandalpara Lane of Barahnagar police station in West Bengal. The next day he left the house saying to see the doctor. Since then, Anwarul Azim had been went missing.
Five days after leaving home, friend Gopal Biswas filed a GD regarding Anwarul Azim's missing at Barahnagar police station on May 18. Even then, this three-time MP was not found. On Wednesday (May 22), news suddenly spread that Anwarul Azim was murdered in room BU 56 of a high-rise residential building called Sanjiba Gardens in the Newtown area of Kolkata. Traces of blood were found inside the house. But the body was not found in the house.
His daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed a case at Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on May 22 in connection with the incident.
