Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies

Staff Correspondent | Published: 17:46, Apr 14,2021 | Updated: 01:26, Apr 16,2021

 
 

Abdul Matin Khasru

Ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdul Matin Khasru, also a former law minister, died of COVID-19 Wednesday afternoon.

The lawmaker for Cumilla-5 constituency breathed his last in the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, said his personal secretary Mahbub Hossain.


Khasru, the newly elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was put on life-support in the hospital on April 13.

He was shifted to the intensive care unit of the hospital on April 6 as infections developed in his lungs after he had recovered from COVID-19, his wife Selina Sobhan Khasru told New Age.

Khasru, also the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs, was admitted to the CMH on March 16 as he tested positive for COVID-19 at the Sangsad Secretariat Hospital on the day.

Khasru, 71, also a freedom fighter, is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

His personal secretary said that Khasru was buried at the family graveyard after his last namaz-e-janaza after asr prayers on Wednesday at his village at Mirpur of Brahmanpara upazila. 

Earlier, hundreds of people, including politicians, judges and lawyers, paid last respect to Khasru in his second namaz-e-janaza held on the Supreme Court Bar Association’s premises at about 10:00am after his body had been brought there from Bakshi Bazar Madrassah near his residence in Old Town of  Dhaka where the first namaz-e-janaza was held.

Chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, five other Appellate Division judges, some High Court judges, law minister Anisul Huq, livestock and fisheries minister SM Rezaul Karim, Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, attorney general AM Amin Uddin, Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury, Awami League leaders and lawyers, among others, joined the namaz-e-janaza at the SC.

Representatives of the president, the prime minister and the Awami League, among others, placed floral wreaths on the coffin of the veteran politician.

The Namaz-e-janaza was followed a guard of honour offered to Khasru as a freedom fighter on behalf of the Dhaka’s deputy commissioner.

President Md Abdul Hamid, prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the chief justice, speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, deputy speaker Md Fazle Rabbi Miah, chief whip Nur-E-Alam Chowdhury, the law minister and the Supreme Court Bar Association expressed deep shock over Khasru’s death in separate condolence messages.

The chief justice suspended Thursday’s proceedings of the High Court and the Appellate Division to mourn the death of Khasru.

The chief justice announced the vacation after joining the Appellate Division-1 online proceedings at about 9:45am.

Khasru was elected the SCBA president in the elections on March 11 but could not participate in the ceremony of taking charge from the previous executive committee on Monday because of his illness.

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