A high-level inquiry is being launched into the death of a freedom fighter and the allegations he brought against Liberation War Affairs secretary, the Public Administration secretary has said.
Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, the Public Administration secretary, told bdnews24.com that the committee would look into “the death and the allegations” made against the senior civil servant.
“The request for inquiry came from the (War Affairs) ministry,” said Chowdhury who would not give details.
PMO sources said the inquiry would be conducted by Information Secretary Mortuza Ahmed.
The sources said Mortuza Ahmed might be given 15 days to complete his job.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq had said earlier his ministry’s Joint Secretary (Administration) Sheikh Mizanur Rahman had been told to gather information about the issue.
Police said Ayub Khan, a former commander of Satkania Upazila unit of the Muktijoddha Sangsad,poisoned himself in a Dhaka hotel on July 7.
Citing the suicide note the 62-year old left behind, police said Khan had bribed Secretary MA Mannan fish, dried fish and money to get him to announce South Chittagong unit of Muktijoddha Sangsad.
He wrote that he was committing suicide as Mannan “humiliated me by throwing me out of his house when I demanded that he pay the amount I had given him”.
But Secretary Mannan said two days later that he could not remember the 1971 war veteran being caught by the neck and driven out of his residence or office.
The ministry that day ordered an investigation into the suicide.
Source: Bd news24
