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Siam Hossain, one of the prime suspects in lawmaker Anwarul Azim
Anar murder, has been arrested in Nepal.
According to Kolkata Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sources, Siam, who went into hiding, has been arrested from India-
Nepal border area. And he is being taken to India today (Saturday).
Earlier, DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman informed media that Nepal police handed Siam over to Indian police on Friday.
"Usually the investigation takes place where the incident took place. But as per our law of Bangladesh, if a Bangladeshi has committed a crime abroad, we can bring that criminal to Bangladesh for trail". the DMP commissioner said.
Siam had attempted to hide in Kathmandu after the murder of Anar in Kolkata, but he was caught. However, the alleged mastermind of the killing, Akhtaruzzaman Shahin, fled to the US from Kathmandu in Nepal.
The Kolkata CID has started questioning Siam and has arrested two more suspects in the murder, the DMP commissioner added.
Siam is close to the mastermind Shahin.
On May 12, MP Annar went to India from Kaliganj in Jhenidah 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.
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