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Govt to take foreign help for judicial probe, says PM

UN agrees to provide assistance


July 31, 2024 00:00:00


Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gives an affectionate kiss on the forehead of the little Kawser at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital on Tuesday. The class-two student of Maqbul Model School sustained bullet injuries during violence over students' quota protests at Uttara recently. — Focus Bangla Photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government will take foreign technical assistance for the judicial probe committee formed to investigate the deaths during quota movement, aiming to ensure proper and standard inquiry, reports UNB.

"We will take foreign technical assistance for the judicial enquiry committee to make it appropriate and standard," she said.

The Prime Minister said this while German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban.

PM's Press Secretary M Nayeemul Islam Khan briefed reporters after the call on.

The government formed a judicial probe committee with High Court Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman to probe all the deaths centering the quota reform movement in the country.

The Prime Minister said that in the meantime Bangladesh has communicated with United Nations regarding taking assistance for this enquiry.

The United Nations expressed their interest while Bangladesh also showed willingness, Nayeemul Islam Khan said. The German Ambassador said that his country will stay beside Bangladesh.

He said that Germany has a longstanding relation with Bangladesh and it will be continued.

He said that they are firmly confident over the recent speech of the Prime Minister that there will be an independent enquiry.

"It will identify the culprits and trial will be held for them," he said.

Achim Troster said that the slow visa processing system of the Embassy in Bangladesh is not a dearth of goodwill, rather it is because of resource constrains.

He expressed regret for this unwilling delay in visa procedures.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed satisfaction over the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Germany.

The German Ambassador extended his condolences on the Mourning Day on Tuesday which was declared by the government to honour those who lost their lives, including law enforcement personnel, during the quota reform movement.

The decision was taken in the regular Cabinet meeting on Monday.

Ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin was present among others at the meeting.


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