Abdul Matin Khasru laid to eternal rest in Cumilla
He was buried at Mirpur village at 4:00 pm after two Namaj-e-Janazas held at Burichang and Brahmanpara upazilas
Former Law Minister and Supreme Court Bar Association President Advocate Abdul Matin Khasru was laid to rest in his family graveyard in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on Thursday.
He was buried at Mirpur village at 4:00 pm after two Namaj-e-Janazas held at Burichang and Brahmanpara upazilas.
Cumilla Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Superintendent of Police Md Faruk Ahmed, Upazila Awami League President Advocate Abul Hashem Khan, its General Secretary and Burichang Upazila Chairman Md Akhlaq Haider, Brahmanpara Upazila Chairman Abu Zaher, former Upazila Chairman Sajjad Hossain Swapan, BNP Vice-Chairman Shawkat Mahmud, Principal Selim Reza Sourav, among others, attended the Namaz e Janaza.
Awami League presidium member and former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru died at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday afternoon. He was 71.
The former minister had been undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka since16 March. He was on life support since last Tuesday.
Abdul Matin Khasru was the current president of the Supreme Court Bar Association. He was elected MP of Awami League from Cumilla-5 constituency. When the Awami League came to power in 1996, he became the law minister.
Abdul Matin Khasru was born in 1950 in Cumilla. He vibrantly participated in the Liberation War.