MP Azim murder: Kolkata CID recovers human bones from North 24 Parganas canal
"We have recovered some bones, which prima facie appear to be human bones. We are sending them for forensic analysis," said Kolkata CID Inspector General of Police (IG) AK Chaturvedi.
Detectives in Kolkata, probing the murder of Bangladeshi MP Md Anwarul Azim Anar, recovered bones from the bank of a canal in North 24 Parganas on Sunday (9 June) morning.
"We have recovered some bones, which prima facie appear to be human bones. We are sending them for forensic analysis," the Hindustan Times quoted AK Chaturvedi, inspector general of West Bengal police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), as saying.
"The bones appear to be that of the human rib cage and arms. The skull was yet to be recovered," he added.
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On Friday evening, the CID arrested Siam Hossain, who allegedly played a key role in disposing of the body parts of the slain MP. Officials said that it was Siam who led the cops to the spot where the bones were recovered.
"If the forensic report confirms that they belong to humans, we will go for DNA analysis to ascertain that they belong to the murdered MP. For that, permission from the court is required. It is a long process," said an officer.
The canal near Polerhat in the Indian district is around 15km away from the New Town apartment where the MP was murdered and his body was dismembered.
"We have been searching this area for over two weeks based on the information provided by another accused, Jihad Hawaldar, who was arrested on 23 May. Hossain gave the specific location during interrogation," said another CID official.
Investors said Hossain and Hawaldar disposed of the body parts and murder weapons.
After Azim's murder in the New Town apartment last month, Hawaldar, a professional butcher brought in from Mumbai, allegedly separated the flesh from the bones, and chopped the body parts.
While the flesh was flushed in a commode, the bones and murder weapons were reportedly disposed of by Hossain and Hawaldar in a canal.
Some flesh was recovered from a septic tank in the New Town apartment where the MP was murdered, and was sent for forensic analysis.
So far, six persons have been arrested by the detectives from Dhaka and Kolkata in connection with the murder.
