An MP from Bangladesh, Anwarul Azim, has allegedly gone missing after arriving in Kolkata for treatment five days ago, officials said on Tuesday. A search operation has been launched to trace the Awami League MP. His body was recovered from Sanjiva Garden in the Newtown area of Bidhannagar in West Bengal on Wednesday morning. Two people have been arrested in this incident.

On Wednesday (May 22), the Indian Embassy informed this information.

Anwarul Azim was the current MP of the Jhenaidah-4 Constituency.

MP’s Personal Assistant (PS) Abdur Rauf said, Azim, arrived in Kolkata on May 12. However, he has not contacted his family since then, and the MP’s phone has remained switched off since May 14.

Mumtarin Firdous, the daughter of MP Anwarul Azim, complained about her father’s disappearance with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Intelligence Department on Tuesday. Then they raised the matter with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and the Prime Minister’s office subsequently informed diplomats in Delhi and Kolkata, who conveyed it to the police.

According to Awami League sources, the MP often visits India for treatment, and Kolkata is familiar to him. Some of his acquaintances are also here.

An official of the consulate said that the MP entered West Bengal through the Darshana border on May 12, Missing Bangladeshi MP Anwarul’s body recovered from Kolkata

An MP from Bangladesh, Anwarul Azim, has allegedly gone missing after arriving in Kolkata for treatment five days ago, officials said on Tuesday. A search operation has been launched to trace the Awami League MP. His body was recovered from Sanjiva Garden in the Newtown area of Bidhannagar in West Bengal on Wednesday morning. Two people have been arrested in this incident.

On Wednesday (May 22), the Indian Embassy informed this information.

Anwarul Azim was the current MP of the Jhenaidah-4 Constituency.

MP’s Personal Assistant (PS) Abdur Rauf said, Azim, arrived in Kolkata on May 12. However, he has not contacted his family since then, and the MP’s phone has remained switched off since May 14.

Mumtarin Firdous, the daughter of MP Anwarul Azim, complained about her father’s disappearance with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Intelligence Department on Tuesday. Then they raised the matter with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and the Prime Minister’s office subsequently informed diplomats in Delhi and Kolkata, who conveyed it to the police.

According to Awami League sources, the MP often visits India for treatment, and Kolkata is familiar to him. Some of his acquaintances are also here.

An official of the consulate said that the MP entered West Bengal through the Darshana border on May 12, on the same day, went to the house of a friend named Gopal Biswas in Baranagar. Two days later, on May 14, he left his friend’s house, saying he would try to return the same day; otherwise, he would return the next day. However, since Azim did not return as informed, Gopal Biswas filed a missing case with Kolkata police.