The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The government has decided to bring back the last remains of Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Hamidur Rahman in the first week of December from Indian State of Tripura, where he was buried.

The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting held at the Secretariat on Thursday with Liberation War Affairs Adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin in the chair.

The meeting decided that a five-member Bangladesh delegation would remain present when the last remains of Shaheed Hamidur Rahman will be dug out from a grave at Aambasa in Tripura.

It also decided that the last remains of Shaheed Hamidur Rahman would be again laid to rest with state honour at the Martyred Intellectuals graveyard at city's Mirpur or Moheshpur in Jhenidah in consultation with his family.

Cabinet secretary Ali Imam Majumder, Liberation War Affairs secretary Dr. Abul Kasem Mahbubul Alam and representatives of the Foreign Ministry and Armed Forces Division were present in the meeting.