The forensic tests carried out on the flesh and bones found during the probe into the murder of Bangladeshi MP Anwarul Azim Anar have confirmed that they were human flesh and bones, officers in the state Criminal Investigation Department said.

The state government has requested the family of the MP in Bangladesh to come to India for a DNA sampling test that would ascertain if the flesh and bones belong to the MP.

“We have received the reports which confirmed that the flesh and the bones were human remains. We will be carrying out a DNA sampling using the bone marrow from the bones once a family member of the MP comes here,” said a senior police officer in the state CID.

Sources in the state home department said that based on the forensic reports, the Bengal police had sent a communication to the home department which was forwarded to the Bangladesh government through the ministry of external affairs to request the family of the deceased MP to come to India. The CID needs a family member whose DNA could be matched with that of the bones that were recovered from a water body at Bhangar a few weeks ago.

“We have received a communication that confirmed that the family has received our message. The date and time of arrival of anyone from the family is yet to be confirmed,” said a senior official of the state home department.

Anar, a Bangladesh MP, was allegedly killed inside an apartment in Rajarhat on May 13 and his body was chopped to pieces for easy disposal.

In the last week of May, a police team from Bangladesh along with state CID officers recovered around 4kg of flesh and hair from the sewerage pipeline of the Rajarhat apartment where the MP was last seen.

In June, based on the statement of one of the accused, police recovered a few bones from a canal in Kashipur in South 24-Parganas.

Sources in the CID told Metro that multiple choppers and knives were purchased from a shop in New Market that were allegedly used for disposing of the MP’s body.

Till now the CID has arrested Siam Hossain, 33, a resident of Burhanuddin in Bhola district of Bangladesh and Jihad Hawaladar, 24, a Bangladeshi national who had illegally sneaked into India and was working as a butcher in Mumbai, in connection with the MP’s death. The other people arrested in the case are in the custody of Bangladesh police.

The murder weapons are yet to be recovered.