The body of Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bir Uttam, Sector-4 commander during the Liberation War, was brought back home from the USA on Monday morning.
An Emirates Airlines flight, carrying the body, reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:45am.
Dutta's body will be kept at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) mortuary. On Tuesday morning, the body will be taken to Dutta's Banani residence and, from there, it will be taken to Dhakeshwari National Temple for state houour.
The war hero's US expatriate elder daughter Mahua Dutta, son Chiranjeeb Dutta, and younger daughter Kabita Dasgupta are likely to reach Dhaka by a Qatar Airlines flight at 2am today while his Canada expatriate second daughter Chayanika Dutta and her husband Rony Prantice will reach Dhaka at 9am on that day by an Emirates Airlines flight to join their father's last rituals.
CR Dutta passed away at a Florida hospital in the USA on August 25 at the age of 93.
Earlier on August 20, he fell in the bathroom and broke his leg.
He was admitted to a hospital in Florida, the USA after his condition deteriorated.
Dutta had also been suffering from various incurable diseases.
Bir Uttam CR Dutta was the founder Director General of the then Bangladesh Rifles, which is now called Border Guard Bangladesh, former Chairman of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust and Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation and founder President of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad.
Dutta was born on January 1, 1927, in Shillong, Assam. His ancestral home is in Mirashi village of Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj.
He joined the Pakistan Army in 1951 and a few days later, he was commissioned as 'second lieutenant'.
The then Pakistan government rewarded him for his courageous contribution to the 1965 Indo-Pak war, the first battle of his military life.
In 1971, Colonel MAG Osmani, the commander-in-chief of the liberation war, appointed Dutta as the commander of Sector 4.
He made important contributions after being appointed as Brigade Commander in Rangpur in 1972.
In 1973, the government felt the need to form a border guard force for independent Bangladesh and gave the responsibility to him in this regard.
He later formed a border guard force and it was named Bangladesh Rifles. At present, the name of this force is Border Guard Bangladesh.
The war hero was awarded the title of Bir Uttam for his valiant contribution to the great Liberation War.
The city road from Katabon to Karwan Bazar Signal was named after 'Bir Uttam CR Dutta'.
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