Govt announces full-fledged commission to reinvestigate BDR carnage

Govt announces full-fledged commission to reinvestigate BDR carnage

The government today announced a seven-member national independent investigation commission led by former director general of BGB A L M Fazlur Rahman to re-investigate the BDR massacre at Pilkhana on February 25 and 26, 2009.
The Cabinet Division published a gazette notification to this end.
The six other members are - Maj Gen Md Jahangir Alam Talukder (Retd), Brigadier General Md Saidur Rahman, Bir Pratik, (Retd), retired joint secretary Munsi Alauddin Al Azad, retired DIG Dr M Akbar Ali, Md Shariful Islam, Associate Professor of Political Science Department of Dhaka University, Md Shahnewaz Khan Chandan, assistant professor of Institute of Education and Research of Jagannath University.
The commission has been asked to submit its report within 90 days from the publication of the notification.