Suchitra Sen's house to be museum

July 17, 2014 02:10 am | Updated 02:10 am IST - DHAKA

Indian film legend Suchitra Sen’s ancestral home in Bangladesh has been finally freed from illegal occupation by a Jamaat-e-Islami–run institution after over three decades.

The eviction was completed on Wednesday after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ordered immediate takeover of the house to turn it into a museum. ‘Imam Ghazali Institute’, an institution run by the Jamaat, had occupied the house for decades.

The ancestral house where Suchitra Sen stayed until her late teens is on Hemsagar Lane in Pabna’s Gopalpur area. Born Rama Dasgupta Krishna in 1931, Sen spent her childhood there before her family moved to India during the 1947 Partition.

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