The New Nation - Internet Edition

Narail Correspondent

The body of Sub-Divisional Officer of Narail, Amjad Ali Khan, was exhumed on Thursday from his grave in Narail and returned to his native Patuakhali district after 37 years of his killing.

Prof Monwara Begum, Head of the Department of Political Science of Government Titumir College in Dhaka, daughter of the deceased, and her brother Didarul Alam, received the body from Mohishkhola area in the town.

She said at the fag end of the Liberation War on December 10 in 1971 some freedom fighters took her father and his Office Assistant Yahia Khan to the Dak Banglow by the order of the Area Commander, Captain Komol Siddiquee.

His captors shot him and Yahia dead on the bank of river Chitra. Two days later on December 12 his dead body was found floating on the river, earlier on December 10 the body of Yahia Khan was recovered. Family members of Yahia buried both the bodies on the south side of Mohishkhola mosque in the town.

Prof Monwara Begum claimed her father was not engaged in any anti- liberation activities.

When contacted, Captain (Retd) Kamol Siddique said that they had no plan to kill either Amjad or Yahia at that time. The killing could have happened due to victims' personal clash with the freedom fighters, who were not under strict discipline at that time.