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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police investigating the murder of Md. Awami League MP Anwarul Azim (Anar) has collected his daughter’s DNA samples, officials aware of the developments said.

The three-time Awami League MP had come to West Bengal on May 12 this year and went missing the next day, prompting police from both countries to launch an investigation. On May 22, police in both Dhaka and West Bengal told the media that he had been killed.

A senior CID official said Mumtarin Ferdous Doreen, daughter of the slain Bangladesh MP, had recently come to India in this connection.

“We have collected the DNA samples. They were sent to the Central Forensic Scientific Laboratory for analysis. We are waiting for the results,” a senior CID official told HT.

Anar was allegedly murdered on May 13 in a flat in New Town, near Kolkata. His body was skinned, dismembered and dismembered. While the meat was reportedly flushed down the commode, the bones were dumped on the banks of a canal.

Investigators later recovered about three kilos of meat from the flat land septic tank and human bones on the banks of a canal in South 24 Parganas. While doctors had confirmed that the bones were that of a man, forensic reports confirmed that that flesh was also that of a human.

In July, the CID approached the Bangladesh High Commission to collect DNA samples from the relatives of the slain MP.

“We now need to confirm whether the bones and flesh belong to the MP. For this, DNA matching has to be done after collecting samples from the MP’s family members,” the CID officer said.

While the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested at least seven persons in this connection, the CID has arrested two suspects. The alleged mastermind of the case is still at large.

The mastermind of the murder, Aktaruzzaman Shahin, a long-time business associate of the MP, is at large. He is probably in the US, research shows. Bangladesh police have approached Interpol.