DNA matches, Mahmudur Rahman is Haris Chowdhury

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Staff Correspondent, Barta24.com | 2024-12-04 17:59:52

The DNA test taken from the grave to determine the identity of BNP leader Abul Haris Chowdhury has matched that of his family. Now, Haris Chowdhury's body can be buried in the graveyard of the family's choice.

After submitting a report in this regard, the High Court bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Mubina Asaf issued this order on Wednesday (December 4).

Barrister Mahdeen Chowdhury was in favor of the petition in the court.

Earlier, on September 5, the High Court bench, after hearing a writ petition filed by his daughter Barrister Samira Tanzin, ordered a DNA test to be conducted to determine the identity of Abul Haris Chowdhury.

In 2021, media reports said that on September 4 of that year, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's political secretary and former BNP leader Abul Haris Chowdhury was buried in a madrasa graveyard in the Jalalabad area of Savar, Dhaka, under the name 'Mahmudur Rahman'.

Haris Chowdhury's daughter said that the recently departed dictatorial government's intelligence department has created a drama to question his father's death. The media has reported one after another, and the fog surrounding Haris Chowdhury's death was not clearing. I have filed this writ to determine that there will never be any questions about it. As a child, it is very tragic and painful that there will be doubts about my father's death. People still ask if he is really dead! We are being harassed. So I approached the court to end this. The court did not disappoint.

Abul Haris Chowdhury was buried in the graveyard of Jamia Khatamun Nabiyyin Madrasa in Savar under the name Mahmudur Rahman.

A rule has been issued asking why a DNA test should not be ordered to be done to determine his identity, and why a death certificate should not be issued in the name of Abul Haris Chowdhury after the DNA test report comes positive, why the Interpol Red Notice in his name should not be withdrawn, and why the brave freedom fighter should not be buried in his own district with due respect as per his last wishes.

The Home Secretary, Local Government Secretary, Registrar General (Birth and Death), Director of CID, Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District and OC of Savar Model Police Station have been asked to respond to the rule.

After the declaration of emergency in the country in 2007, Haris Chowdhury's wife went to her village home in Darpnagar, Kanaighat Upazila of Sylhet. After 12 midnight, his personal assistant Atiq told him on his mobile phone that a joint force operation was underway at the residence of BNP leaders in Dhaka. A few hours later, the joint force raided Haris's house. But he had already escaped. After hiding here and there in Sylhet for a few days, he crossed the Zakiganj border into India in the dark of night on January 29 of that year. His grandparents' house was in Badarpur, Karimganj district, Assam, India. He stayed there. From there, he would travel abroad.

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