A Dhaka court on Friday placed three suspects on an eight-day remand in a case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim (Anar) in Kolkata of India’s West Bengal with his dismembered remains yet to be recovered.

Besides, law enforcers were also not disclosing the motive behind the gruesome murder though it was reported that there was a feud between the MP and murder mastermind Akhteruzzaman Shahin over gold smuggling.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz passed the remand order after the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced the suspects before the court.

Those who were put on remand are Aman Ullah alias Shimul Bhuiyan, 56, a senior leader of the Purba Banglar Communist Party, Shelesti Rahman, 22, and Faisal Ali alias Shaji alias Tanvir Bhuiyan, 30.
DMP Assistant Commissioner (DB-Wari) Mahfuzur Rahman produced them before the court, seeking a 10-day remand for each.

At the beginning of the remand hearing, a lawyer asked Shelesti to sign an affidavit.

However, she started crying asking why she would sign. “How have I become an accused? I was just in the flat. I know nothing else,” she said.
As she did not sign the affidavit, no hearing was held on the cancellation of her remand. No lawyer represented the suspects in the court.

Meanwhile, the dismembered body of Anwarul Azim was reported to have been dumped into the Hatishala Canal and other parts of Kolkata.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal with one suspected killer Jihad Howlader searched the canal on Friday. But no part of the body was found.
The CID arrested Jihad, 24, who is a butcher by profession, from Mumbai on Thursday.

Jihad is the son of Joynal Howlader of Digholia in Khulna. He worked as a butcher at a meat shop in Mumbai.
During interrogation by the West Bengal CID, he gave the bone-chilling description of the murder.

Jihad said he and others strangulated the MP to death. After that, they tore the body apart, separating flesh from bones and cutting them into small pieces.
They mixed turmeric powder with the flesh and bones so that they could say that they were taking those for cooking if anybody would ask. The dismembered body parts were dumped into a canal and some other places.

Akhteruzzaman Shahin, the mastermind of the murder and a childhood friend of Anwarul Azim, brought Jihad who has been living in the neighbouring country illegally to Kolkata from Mumbai two months back to execute the murder plot.

On Friday, a West Bengal court placed him on a 12-day remand after the CID sought a 14-day remand.
Later, the CID took him to the Hatishala Canal to reach the body pieces of MP Azim.

Earlier on Thursday, the police searched for the body in the canal for about three hours.
The police first thought Jihad to be Siam, but later came to know about his real identity. Siam already fled to Nepal, said police.

The CCTV footage of the MP murder has been found. The footage shows that Aman and Jihad were coming out of the flat in Kolkata with the former carrying a grey suitcase and the latter some polythene bags.

Aman was found locking the door and then they stood in front of a lift and entered it.
Police said the suitcase and the bags were filled with the dismembered remains of Anwarul Azim.