MP Anar murder: Shimul, Tanvir denied bail

A Dhaka court has dismissed the bails to Shimul Bhuiyan and Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tahmina Haque’s court rejected the bail applications of the accused after the hearing in the case on Monday (June 10).

Lawyer Sohel Amin conducted the bail hearing for the accused. In the hearing, he said they are innocent. They have no involvement with the incident. They were remanded several times. But nothing was recovered.

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.