Fire at motifs built for Noboborsho Shobhajatra mysterious

Fire at two motifs that were built to observe Noboborsho Shobhajatra on Pahela Baishakh scheduled to be held on April 14 is mysterious.

Miscreants set fire to the motif of Sheikh Hasina, one of the seven largest motifs built for Bangla New Year observance, resulting in damages of a nearby motif as well.

Many say how did those two motifs burn even though the other motifs were intact? Surely someone deliberately set fire to only those two motifs.

The Fire Service and Civil Defense Department has said that an investigation will be conducted into the matter. 

DU Proctor Saifuddin Ahmed said the fire could have been set on the motif between 4:45 and 5:00am on Saturday as the members of the security mobile team went to perform Fajr prayers. “The act of setting fire might be done at that time,” he said.

“On 12th April, around 04:50 AM, someone or some people set fire to the symbolic motif of the monstrous fascist among the various symbolic motifs kept inside the pandal erected near the southern gate of the faculty,” Dhaka University's Fine Arts Faculty dean's notification said.

The university authorities have already decided to form a probe committee to investigate the fire incident and a general dairy has also been filed with Shahbag police station.