Mujib Borsho Celebrations: SC judges visit Bangabandhu jail memorial museum

Mujib Borsho Udjapon Committee of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Husain, visited the old Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road to see the Bangabandhu Jail Memorial Museum yesterday. 

Committee members, all sitting judges of the Appellate and High Court divisions of the SC, left a floral wreath at the place where Bangabandhu's sculpture has been erected.

The "Kamini" tree, planted by Bangabandhu himself, is still there to blossom flowers and spread its fragrance.

The museum on Bangabandhu was established encompassing the Dewani Cell, where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was kept detained during the Pakistani  regime.

"Many of us know what Bangabandhu sacrificed for the Bengali nation. Anyone visiting the museum would find it difficult to control their emotions. The measures taken by the Pakistanis to subdue Bangabandhu's spirit is harrowing to witness," Justice Obaidul Hassan, an Appellate Division judge and committee member, told The Daily Star.

"We also visited the place where the four national leaders were killed and placed floral wreaths at the mausoleum made in their memory. It was a shame for the nation that we failed to bring the culprits to book for quite a long period. However, after Sheikh Hasina, Bangabandhu's daughter, assumed power, and the trial of the murderers finally started. Eventually the perpetrators were punished," he said.

"Let's pray for the departed souls of Bangabandhu and his family members who were killed on August 15, 1975 and the national leaders who were killed on November 3, 1975," the judge said.