A DNA take a look at requested by the family of BNP chief Harris Chowdhury after exhuming his body has eventually confirmed his loss of life placing to leisure all rumours.
The body buried under the title of “Mahmudur Rahman” in Savar in 2021 used to be exhumed on 16 October and after a genetic matching used to be established with Harris’ daughter Barrister Samira Tanzin Chowdhury.
The effects proved the body to be of Harris Chowdhury and brooding regarding the implications, the Excessive Court docket has granted permission to rebury Harris Chowdhury’s body at his most current burial plan with due honour as a freedom fighter as per his final desires.
The bench of Justice Fahmida Khatun and Justice Mubina Asaf issued the relate this day (4 December) after reviewing the DNA take a look at findings submitted to the court.
Advocate Barrister Mahdin Chowdhury represented the petitioner all the plan in which during the hearing.
Relating to the Excessive Court docket relate, his daughter Barrister Samira said, “The outgoing authoritarian regime scripted a drama to solid doubt on my father’s loss of life. Media reviews perpetuated confusion over his death. As his child, this uncertainty is agonising and deeply painful. Of us composed interrogate, ‘Did he essentially trudge away?’ The harassment we now have faced precipitated us to seek for the court’s intervention to elevate closure. The court didn’t disappoint us.”
Previously, on 5 September, the identical bench directed the exhumation of the body for DNA testing in step with a writ petition filed by Harris Chowdhury’s daughter, Samira Tanzin.
His body used to be exhumed on 16 October 2024 from the Jamia Khatamun Graveyard within the Kamalpur assign of Birulia union, Savar under tight security.
Harris Chowdhury, the fashioned political secretary to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, used to be reportedly buried under the alias “Mahmudur Rahman” in a madrasa cemetery in Jalalabad, Savar, revealed a media file on 4 September 2021.
Per the petitioner’s lawyer, Harris Chowdhury went into hiding to slide the wrath of the then authorities. Later, he lived in Dhaka under the alias Mahmudur Rahman and remained within the city till his loss of life.
On 3 September 2021, he handed away at Evercare Sanatorium within the capital after contracting Covid-19. Alternatively, under strain from the regulation enforcement companies of the then-authorities, his loss of life used to be concealed, and he used to be forcibly buried within the premises of a madrasa in Savar. The authorities didn’t downside any loss of life certificates under his precise identity at the time and didn’t accord him the due honour he deserved as a freedom fighter.
For some time, Harris Chowdhury’s cousin, Ashiq Chowdhury, had hinted at inconsistencies regarding Harris Chowdhury’s loss of life through Facebook posts but never made tell statements. This sparked public discussion.
Samira later clarified that her father had indeed died in Dhaka. Earlier, rumours instructed that Harris Chowdhury had died in London, but Samira defined that he had remained in Bangladesh. He had been serving as an Imam in mosques and preaching on behalf of Tabligh-Jamaat.
The Excessive Court docket’s directive now permits the family to proceed along with his reburial with due honour as a freedom fighter as per his final desires.
