Bir Uttam CR Dutta’s cremation held

The cremation of Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bir Uttam, widely known as CR Dutta, commander of sector number four during the Liberation War, was held in the capital on Tuesday.

His body was taken to Sabujbagh crematorium where Bangladesh Army presented him a gun salute before his cremation.

Earlier, his coffin was taken to Dhakeshwari National Temple premises for two hours to allow the people of all strata to pay their last tributes to the celebrated son of the soil. 

On Monday morning, his body Dhaka from the USA where he passed away on August 25.

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, it was not be possible to take the body of 1971 Liberation War hero to the Central Shaheed Minar and his village home in Habigaj district.

CR Dutta, Bir Uttam, passed away at a Florida hospital in the USA at around 9 am (Bangladesh time) on August 25 at the age of 93.