Qazi Kamal Ahmed aka Gas Babu, the relief and social welfare secretary of the ruling Awami League`s Jhenidah unit, gave a confessional statement before a Dhaka court on Friday in the case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar.
Afterwards, he was sent to jail.
He is the fourth accused to have given a confessional statement in the sensational case as yet.
Earlier, in this case, Shimul Bhuiyan, Tanvir Islam and Celesty Rahman had given confessional statements to the court. They are currently in jail.
Earlier in the day, he was produced before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim.
On 9 June, the court had granted seven days` remand to Babu three days after his arrest.
Anwarul, a three-time MP and also president of Kaliganj upazila unit Awami League, went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive treatment. He went missing on May 13 after going out of the flat he was residing in Kolkata`s Borah Nagar area.
According to the Kolkata police sources, Anwarul was taken to a flat in New Town in Kolkata, where he believed to be strangled to death and his body was cut into pieces.
