A committee formed by the Ministry of Home Affairs has begun investigating the fire at the ancestral home in Kushtia of Nusrat Tabassum, a leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and a member of parliament in a reserved women’s seat.
The committee members went to the house in Bagoan village, Daulatpur upazila, at about 10:30am on Friday. This was confirmed to the media by the committee’s head, Ahmed Mahbub Ul Islam, deputy director (deputy secretary) of Local Government in Kushtia district.
Mahbub Ul Islam said the home ministry formed the committee on Thursday.
The committee has been asked to report within three days. It began the first day of its work on Friday.
The other three members are Major Mohammad Ashraful Haque, assistant director (administration) of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Kushtia sector; Delwar Hossain, additional superintendent of police (Bheramara circle) in Kushtia; and Wadud Hossain, assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence in Kushtia.
The committee members toured the burnt house in the morning.
They asked Shah Alam, who lives in the house, and Nusrat Tabassum’s father, Abdul Halim, about details of what happened at the time.
People involved in the inquiry said its first work is under way. They are examining the possible causes of the fire and will file a report when the inquiry ends.
The fire broke out late on Wednesday night at the ancestral home in Bagoan village, Daulatpur, of Nusrat Tabassum, a joint convener of the NCP. She filed a case at Daulatpur police station alleging an attempt to kill members of her family by setting fire to the house and causing an explosion. The case names Kushtia district and Daulatpur upazila leaders of the banned Chhatra League and of the Jubo League and Swechchhasebak League, whose activities are banned.
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