Foreign technical assistance to be taken for judicial inquiry committee: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said foreign technical assistance will be taken for the judicial probe committee to ensure a fair and standard inquiry into the deaths over the quota reform movement.

"We'll take foreign technical assistance for the judicial inquiry committee to make it (probe) appropriate, qualitative and highly standard," she said.

The prime minister revealed the information while German Ambassador in Dhaka Achim Troster called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban, according to a BSS report.

Prime Minister's Press Secretary Md Nayeemul Islam Khan briefed the reporters after the meeting.

The government has formed the Judicial Inquiry Committee with High Court Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman to probe all the deaths centering the quota reform movement in the country.