Asaduzzaman Khan, the home minister of Bangladesh, announced that a member of the country’s ruling party was discovered dead in the Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday morning, over a week after going missing.
Anwarul Azim Anar, 56, an Awami League member who won his third term in a row in a constituency in the Jhenaidah border district, vanished on May 13, the day after departing for medical care in India, according to his family.
The lawmaker’s death led to the arrest of three Bangladeshis, Khan informed reporters.
“Disclose all information at the moment for the sake of the investigation,” he said, adding that Bangladeshi and Kolkatan police were working together on the investigation.
Citing information from the Bangladesh Mission in Kolkata, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said that police did not find the legislator’s body in the flat where he was thought to have been killed.
Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, conveyed her condolences and profound sadness over the legislator’s passing.
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