The body of Bangladeshi Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, a former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and a key member of the Awami League, will be handed over to Bangladesh High Commission officials today.<\/p>\n
A top Meghalaya official confirmed this to NDTV.<\/p>\n
The body is still at the border and will be taken to his home in Pirojpur district in Bangladesh through the Dawki Land Port in West Jaintia Hill, the official further added.<\/p>\n
The Meghalaya government had earlier stated that it was waiting for instructions from the Centre on the next steps to be taken following the recent recovery of the politician\u2019s body. Panna had fled Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime and had allegedly entered India illegally, likely through the Dona Bhoi area of East Jai\u00f1tia Hills (EJH) District, approximately 1.5 kilometres from the Indo-Bangladesh border.<\/p>\n
The body, discovered on the evening of August 26, 2024, has been identified through a Bangladeshi passport. It was handed over to a close associate of Panna\u2019s family, who has been authorised by the Bangladesh High Commission to identify the body and complete the necessary paperwork, early morning at around 5 am.<\/p>\n
The body had been kept in the Khliehriat Civil Hospital\u2019s morgue for identification. A post-mortem indicated that he died of throttling. His autopsy report also indicated that the death was from strangulation, raising further doubt on how he died.<\/p>\n
Deputy Chief Minister in charge of Home (Police), Prestone Tynsong, had said, \u201cWe have informed the higher authorities and also the High Commissioners of Bangladesh and India about the discovery of the body, and now we are waiting for instructions from the Home Ministry on the next steps to be taken.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs are taking care of everything, and our responsibility as the state government is only to hand over the dead body to the concerned family members once they reach Meghalaya (India),\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n
However, before the formal handover of the body, forensic test samples were to be collected to aid in the investigation of how the politician died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The body of Bangladeshi Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, a former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and a key member of the Awami League, will be handed over to Bangladesh High Commission officials today. A top Meghalaya official confirmed this to NDTV. The body is still at the border and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}