‘The executer of the plot’
Amanullah is not the real name of an alleged killer of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar. His is actually Fazl Ahmed Bhuiyan alias Shimul Bhuiyan of Khulna.
Shimul, of Phultala upazila, is accused in over two dozen cases, including for murders and possession of illegal firearms, said sources in the police and locals.
A former leader of Purbo Banglar Communist Party, Shimul killed one Imran Gazi of Soilgati in Dumuria upazila in 1991. He was sentenced to 42 years in jail, but was released on medical grounds after seven years.
"Underground party leader Abdur Rashid Malitha alias Dada Tapan used to live in Shimul's home. My father Sardar Abul Kashem was then the Damodor UP chairman. We caught Dada Tapan in 1991 at Shimul's home," said Selim Sardar.
After Tapan was killed in a "shootout" with law enforcers in June 2008, Shimul started extortion in Khulna, Bagerhat, Narail, Jashore, and some other south-western districts, said locals.
Selim said Shimul and his associates killed his father in 1998 when he was in a meeting with the thana nirbahi officer. He was arrested in 2000 over the murder and remained in jail till 2013.
From behind bars, Shimul had Selim's brother and then UP chairman Sardar Abu Sayeed Badal killed in 2010, Selim claimed.
Selim also said he and his brother Sardar Alauddin Mithu were witnesses in the murder cases and that was why Shimul and his men also killed Mithu on May 25, 2017.
"We filed a case over Mithu's murder accusing unidentified people, fearing reprisal from Shimul, but police submitted a charge sheet naming Shimul as the prime accused in 2018," Selim added.
Shimul's wife Sabina Yasmin is currently a member of Khulna Zilla Parishad and his brother Sharif Mohammad Bhuiyan alias Shiplu Bhuiyan is now the chairman of Damodar union.
In 2018, Shimul had a fake birth certificate made and used it to get an NID card with the fake name Sayed Amanullah. He then got a passport, detectives said.
After police arrested him in Dhaka on Tuesday, Shimul admitted that he travelled to India using that passport.
Harun Or Rashid, additional commissioner (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, yesterday said the detectives were investigating how he managed the passport.
Shimul was a student of Bangla at Rajshahi University. Locals in Phultala said Shimul, when he was a student, used to travel to Jhenaidah from Rajshahi to meet Tapan.
Shimul's studies came to an end after he was sentenced for the murder of Imran Gazi. He then joined the extremist outfit Janajuddha and was in charge of the outfit's activities in Khulna region. The extremists dominated the Khulna region until 2010.
According to intelligence sources, Shimul had links with extremists Abdur Rashid Tapu, Shailen, and Debu.
According to the DB, the mastermind behind the lawmaker's murder, Aktaruzzaman, hired Shimul as a hitman for Tk 5 crore.
Shimul flew to Kolkata with Aktaruzzaman and stayed in Aktaruzzaman's flat in New Town of Kolkata.
When the MP entered the flat on May 13, Shimul with other suspects killed him.
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