Star report prompts lawyer to serve legal notice over negligence in renovating temples

Following a report published on The Daily Star, a Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice to the government to form a committee in three days to probe into negligence in renovating the two-century-old twin temples at Muktagachha in Mymensingh and to take appropriate action against the officials responsible for the negligence.

Lawyer Manoj Kumar Bhowmick sent the legal notice to the cultural affairs secretary and the director general of department of archeology, requesting them to take necessary steps to this effect.

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In the notice, the lawyer said he will take appropriate legal steps if the cultural affairs secretary does not form the probe committee to inquire into the negligence and take proper action against the responsible officials.

The Daily Star report published under the headline "200-year old twine temple in sorry state" said "The two-century-old twin temples, Shree Shree Anandamoyee Shiva and Kali Mata Mandir, in Mymensingh's Muktagachha upazila is in dilapidated state for decades, thanks to the indifference of the authorities concerned."