North Bengal Sugar Mills will observe "Shaheed Day" today in memory of those who embraced martyrdom on this day during the 1971 Liberation War.

The Pakistani occupation forces killed Language Movement veteran and freedom fighter Shaheed Lt Md Anwarul Azim, the then administrator of the sugar mill at Gopalpur in Lalpur of Natore, and more than 150 officers and employees of the mill.

Later, the bodies were dumped into a pond beside the mill, says a press release.

In recognition of Azim's role in the Liberation War Gopalpur rail station was named as "Azim Nagar" as per the direct instruction of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1974. A "commemorative stamp" was also published in 1994.