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Tearful Khaleda sees mother’s body

Could not meet sons also freed on parole

Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was released on parole yesterday to have last glimpse of her mother who died Friday night.
Her sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko were also granted a brief freedom to pay respects to their grandmother Taiyeba Majumder.
Khaleda got two hours to spend beside the body while Tarique and Koko each about an hour at their cantonment residence.
The former premier and her sons, however, could not meet each other as the jail authorities had their release staggered. They were sent back to prison separately.
Tarique, also senior joint secretary general of BNP, and his younger brother were not allowed to attend the namaz-e-janaza held at Gulshan's Azad Masque last night.
Sombre faces of the relatives greeted the mother and sons at their Shahecd Moinul Road residence that had the three for the first time since their arrest. Khaleda and Koko were arrested on September 3 while Tarique on March 7 last year on corruption charges.
Meanwhile, a number of BNP . leaders including Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain and acting office secretary Rizvi Ahmed wanted to pay respect to late Taiyeba and meet the chairperson, but the authorities did not allow them.
Family sources said Khaleda, Tarique and Koko--all broke into tears seeing Taiyeba, who would be buried today at Faridpur graveyard in Dinajpur town. The body would be kept at the CMH before being flown back to Dinajpur this morning.
Koko, who looked sick, fro quently enquired about his mother and brother. He spent about an hour with his grieving family mem -bers and relatives.
Later, the jail authorities sent him back to the prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University at around 5:45pm.
Tarique arrived minutes after the van carrying Koko had left the cantonment. In a white punjabi, he was in the house for over an hour Before being driven back to the Dhaka Central Jail at around 7:20pm. he attended a janaza there.
The jail authorities took Koko to Cantonment Police Station at around 1:50pm and kept him there till 4:40pm.
Tarique too was not directly taken to Moinul Road. He was first brought to Shahbagh Police Station from the Central Jail.
Khaleda Zia was released from the sub-jail on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises at 7:23pm. Amid tight security, the motorcade carrying her used the Old Airport Road to avoid newsmen who massed in front the Shaheed Jahangir Gate.
Sayeed Eskandar and Shamim Eskandar received their sister Khaleda at her residence where she stayed for about two hours.
An air of gloom settled over with her entering the house at 730pm. Her eyes bnmmed with tears as she met the family members and relatives including her grand children and in -laws.
Inspector General of Police (prisons) Brig Gen Zakir Hasan told The Daily Star at 10:20pm that the BNP chairperson was brought back to the subjail at around 10:00pm.
Earlier in the day, the body of Jaiyeba was flown in to Dhaka by an air force helicopter. It was taken to Moinul Road by an ambulance from Kurmitola.
The chopper left the northern district town tor the capital at about 2:40pm. Shamim Iskandar, younger son of Taiyeba, accompanied the body
Taiyeba Majumder died of car diac arrest at Zia Heart Foundation and Research Centre in Dinajpur at 8:45pm Friday. Sie was 87.