Why MP Anwarul Azim killed: who involved?

Why Anwarul Azim Anar was taken to the neighboring country and killed, the law enforcers do not have a clear answer. However, Bangladesh and Indian detectives are investigating with several suspicions in front.

Azim is believed to have been killed over a conflict of sharing of huge gold smuggling proceeds. Azim and his friend contractor Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen have a joint business over two Bengal. Azim had a conflict for the sharing of money with Shaheen, the mastermind behind the murder. Apart from this, Shaheen also has a hundi business.

Besides, a young woman named Shilasti Rahman is also involved in the incident. Investigators say that Shilasti could be used as a honey trap. In the meantime, the Intelligence Department (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested and interrogated Shilasti. According to DB sources, Shilasti Rahman is the girlfriend of Aktaruzzaman Shaheen, the mastermind behind MP Anar's murder. Investigation is on to find out more about her.

According to a source in Kolkata, two men and a woman entered the flat where MP Anar was murdered on May 13. After staying for a day, a man and a woman came out of the flat. It is believed that the woman is Shilasti Rahman. She may have entered the flat with Amanullah and MP Anar on May 13.

A senior officer of DB Police said, "Shilasti Rahman is the girlfriend of Aktaruzzaman Shaheen, the main planner of MP Anar's murder." On May 13, she entered the flat with Amanullah and MP Anar. After staying a day, a man and a woman came out of the flat. Shaheen used this woman as a trap to take MP Annar to Kolkata. Because, even though Shaheen returned home on May 10 after making all plans, Shilasti stayed in Kolkata. He returned to the country by plane on May 15.

An officer in charge of the intelligence department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said, "Shilasti was staying on another flat of that building at the time of the murder." She was not in front. After committing the murder, she came down. Then she helped hide the body.

Shaheen used leader Akhtaruzzaman in the killing mission.

Apart from this, the detectives are investigating whether any self-interested group is involved in the secret mission of killing Azim. Jhenaidah-centric Azim's political opponents are involved in the murder plan from afar - there is talk. This information was obtained from sources related to the investigation.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Investigation) Mohammad Haroon Or Rasheed said that 'The investigation is on to find out the cause of the murder. Whether it is family or financial or because of suppressing a miscreant in the area, everything will be brought under investigation. It is a brutal murder – the investigating officers are working on it. I am in close contact with the Indian police. We are getting various important information from them. For the sake of the investigation, we cannot say everything.'

It is known that Azim's ancestral home is in Madhuganj Bazar area of Kaliganj Upazila in Jhenaidah. He is the president of Upazila Awami League. He was elected MP for three consecutive times in 2014, 2018 and 2024 from Jhenaidah-4 Constituency. However, there are many discussions and criticisms about his past activities. He is alleged to have controlled the extremists in the South and West.

His name was also in the police list as the master of arms and explosives smuggling along the border. Azim is facing charges of arms-explosives, drug and gold smuggling, extortion, tender-fixing, extortion and harboring extremists.

In 2007 BDR (now BGB) seized 12 kg 950 grams of gold from Loknathpur area of Chuadanga. The smugglers came to know that Saiful Islam, the C&F businessman, had handed over this consignment. After that he was killed. The police issued a charge sheet against 19 people including Azim in that case. However, in 2012, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Home Affairs, several people were acquitted from the cases, including bringing them into political consideration.

When the Awami League government was formed in 2009, he started getting acquitted from other cases against Azim. And in 2014, after being elected MP on the nomination of Awami League, he freed himself from most of the cases.

Locals complain that MP Azim became the owner of huge wealth through illegal business. In 1991, he got involved in gold smuggling along with Paritosh Thakur, another smuggler of Jhenaidah. He joined Awami League in 1996. After that, he took the hand of a councilor of Kaliganj municipality and got involved in arms smuggling.