Dhaka: Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday cleared hurdles to turn actor Suchitra Sen’s ancestral home in northwestern Pabna into a museum as it ordered authorities to evict a pro-Jamaat-e-Islami group from the premises.
A bench headed by Supreme Court Justice S.K. Sinha issued the order, dismissing a plea by the Jamat-backed Imam Gazzali Institute to retain the possession of the home at Hem Sagar Lane in Pabna city in Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh.
“According to the verdict, there is no hurdle in setting up an archive on Suchitra Sen and conserve her ancestral home” as a museum as demanded by cross-section of people in Pabna, Additional Attorney General Murad Reza said.
He added that the Jamaat-backed institute must now vacate the home, now being used as a school, as the government is now armed with an order to evict it immediately.
Sen’s father built the home in the pre-partition period and she spent her childhood and adolescence there.
