Rupganj, Narayanganj
Amena Begum wants one question answered. Her only son, Apu Mia, 26, went into the Gazi Tyres factory on the night of 25 August 2024. Is he alive, or is he dead? And if he is dead, then where is his body, his clothes, any last mark that he existed?
“দেড় মাস গেলো গা। গাজীর মিলে যাই আর আহি। কেউ ভিতরে ঢুকতে দেয় না। কয়, চুরি করতে গিয়া মরছে, এইটার খবর নাকি কেউ দিবো। এহোন আমার তো পোলা। লাশ তো দূরের কথা কাপড়-চোপড়ও পাইলাম না। একটাই পোলা আছিল আমার। আমি তো মা, আমার কইলজাটা জ্বলতেছে।”
A month and a half has gone. I go to Gazi’s mill and I come back. Nobody lets me inside. They say he died going to steal — as if anyone will give news of that. But he is my son. Forget his body, I didn’t even get his clothes. He was the only one I had. I am his mother. My heart is burning.
Apu worked at a local sweater factory. He had drawn his wages that day. Walking home with the money, he saw the crowd and went in.
“এলাকার কয়েকজনরে পাইয়া ভিতরে গেছিল অপু। তারে পাই না দেইখা গাজীর মিলে খুঁজতে পাঠাইছিলাম ছোট ভাইরে। ভাইগ্নারে খুঁজতে গিয়া আমার ভাইটাও নিখোঁজ।”
He went inside with a few people from the neighbourhood. When I couldn’t find him, I sent my younger brother to look for him at Gazi’s mill. He went to look for his nephew and now my brother is missing too.
After the fire was set that night, the situation moved beyond anyone’s control within hours. The district administration’s own inquiry committee found that at least 182 people were missing.
They were not factory workers. They were people from the surrounding neighbourhoods — some curious, some hungry, some angry. The looting began before the fire; then it turned into something else. The gate was locked, and most of those inside the building never came out. The fire burned for five days.
The gravest failure was one of security. There was no effective presence of law enforcement while it happened. Later, when the families came running to the gate, the rescue stalled on a single argument: the building is unsafe. Some bone fragments were recovered, but whether they are human — and whose — still has no final forensic answer.
Ali Hossain, 24, a mason, has been missing since that night. His younger brother, Md Shakil:
“প্রশাসনের কাছে যাইয়া কোনো লাভ নাই। তারা কিছু করতেছে না। এইটা তো সাধারণ কোনো ঘটনা না। নিখোঁজের সংখ্যা তো অনেক। প্রশাসন আর সরকার চাইতেছে এই ব্যাপারটাতে ধামাচাপা দিতে। নাইলে এতদিন হয়ে গেল, তারা কোনো খোঁজ দিবো না?”
There’s no use going to the administration. They’re doing nothing. This isn’t some ordinary incident. The number of missing is enormous. The administration and the government want to bury this. Otherwise, after all this time, would they still have nothing to tell us?
Rashida Begum’s son, Aman Ullah, was twenty. Reached by phone, she said:
“বাবা গো, খালি তো ফোন দিয়া জিগাও। পোলাডার খোঁজ তো দিতে পারলা না। সব হাসপাতালে খুঁজছি, সবহানে খুঁজছি। কোনো খবর পাই না। তোমাগো সরকাররে কও, আমার পোলাডার পোড়া লাশটা দিতে না পারুক, হাড্ডিডা দিতো।”
Son, you people only call and ask. You couldn’t find my boy. I’ve searched every hospital, searched everywhere. There’s no news. Tell your government — if it can’t give me my son’s burnt body, then let it give me the bones.
That sentence is an accusation, and every visitor to this page inherits it. Asking is not finding. A record is not a recovery.
Against that emptiness stands a counter-archive. Built as part of Alt+Ctrl+Story, a joint initiative of Drik and ULAB, this record assembles the timeline claim by claim from published reporting: what has happened around this building since 30 August 2024, what has not, and the fact that the state has reached no conclusion about the 182. What remains is waiting.
Family testimony reported by bdnews24.com, 20 October 2024.
The count, as the state revised it — Rupganj, Narayanganj
Eight figures, eight bodies counting, four weeks. Each was produced under different rules for a different purpose. None was ever finalised.
A counter-archive · Rupganj, Narayanganj, Bangladesh
182 went in. The building has not been opened since.
On 25 August 2024 the Gazi Tyres factory in Rupganj was looted and set alight. The gate of the six-storey building was locked from outside while people were on the upper floors. Firefighters did not leave the site for five days.
Since crews withdrew on 30 August 2024, no one has searched the interior. No remains have been identified. No perpetrator has been named. Not one of the 182 has been formally declared dead, which is why their families cannot inherit, claim, or bury.
This page is the record: what is established, what is contested, and what the state has been asked and has not answered.
There has never been one authoritative list of the missing, and the revisions are themselves the story. Each figure below was produced by a different body, under different rules, for a different purpose.
Bangladesh does not know exactly how many people it lost in this building, because it never fully looked. The figure is a floor, not a total.
A fire that began with an arrest
In the early hours of 25 August 2024, police in Dhaka arrested Golam Dastagir Gazi — chairman of Gazi Group, former Minister of Textiles and Jute in the ousted Awami League government, and four-time MP for Narayanganj-1. Twenty days earlier that government had fallen in a student-led mass uprising, and the Gazi Tyres factory in Rupganj had already been looted once, on 5 August.
News of the arrest reached Rupganj by afternoon. Accounts from the scene describe an announcement over loudspeaker, celebratory processions, and then crowds — factory officials estimated hundreds of people in two groups, possibly around a thousand — breaking through the gates of the roughly 45-acre compound beside the Dhaka–Sylhet highway. Looting ran for hours. Machinery, copper, chemicals, furniture: witnesses described groups working floor by floor through the six-storey building.
Around 9:00 pm, according to the factory's assistant general manager, a fire was set on the ground floor. The district probe committee's report later described a more deliberate sequence: while one group was looting the fourth and fifth floors, another locked the ground-floor gate, started the fire, and left. Established
The building was locked from the ground floor. Then it was set on fire.
The building was stocked with rubber, plastics and chemicals used in tyre production; the upazila executive officer told reporters that some 25 tonnes of sulphur were stored on site, which is why the fire took the form it did. The flames climbed to the sixth floor within roughly an hour. The Fire Service logged the alert at 11:40 pm. Twelve units fought the blaze through the night and the next day.
How long it burned depends on what you count. The Fire Service director declared it under control at 7:05 pm on 26 August — 22 hours after the fire was set, about 19 hours after crews were called. It was declared doused at around 5:00 am on 27 August, some 32 hours in. Published figures run from 19 hours to 40, because outlets started their clocks in different places. All of them undercount the operation: residual heat kept restarting small fires, and the Narayanganj fire service did not report the site fully extinguished until 6:05 pm on 30 August. Contested
Factory management said it called the police and other agencies during the looting and got no effective response. Police denied negligence. By the next morning relatives had begun gathering at the gate with photographs and national ID cards, reporting family members whose phones had gone silent in the night. Some of the missing called relatives from inside the building as the fire spread. Then the phones went dead.
The factory's position, stated from the first day and never seriously disputed: none of the missing were its workers.
What happened, and when
Larger markers denote the eight moments at which the outcome could have changed.
The first looting
The Awami League government falls in a mass uprising. Amid nationwide unrest the Gazi Tyres factory is looted and attacked for the first time; the district probe later records this first phase as 5–8 August.
bdnews24, Daily Star
Golam Dastagir Gazi is arrested
Gazi is arrested in Dhaka's Shantinagar area, later shown arrested in a murder case over the killing of schoolboy Roman Mia during the July protests.
TBS, Daily Star
Crowds storm the factory
After news of the arrest and a loudspeaker announcement, crowds enter the compound in Rupshi. Looting continues for hours.
Prothom Alo, TBS
The fire is set, the gate is locked
A fire is set on the ground floor of the six-storey building while people are on the upper floors. Flames reach the top floor within about an hour.
Daily Star, probe report
The Fire Service is alerted
The alert is logged; twelve units are eventually deployed.
Dhaka Tribune
173–175 names at the gate
Relatives crowd the gate and the Fire Service begins taking down names: 173 by 2:45 pm, 174 by 3:00 pm, 175 by day's end. At around 5:50 pm the agency texts newsrooms to say it keeps no official list and asks them not to publish one.
Prothom Alo, Daily Star, Dhaka Tribune
Fire declared under control
Under control 22 hours after the fire was set, about 19 hours after crews were called.
TBS, New Age
Doused after 32 hours; a probe is formed
The fire is declared doused; the building is judged at risk of collapse and rescue cannot begin. The Narayanganj Deputy Commissioner forms an eight-member probe committee under Additional District Magistrate Hamidur Rahman.
Daily Star, Dhaka Tribune, TBS
The last search to date
A parallel list by students, police and the upazila administration counts more than 130 missing. A BUET team reports exposed reinforcement, expanded columns and bent beams; the Fire Service concludes search inside is not possible. Crews check the basement and find no one. Drone and turntable-ladder sweeps from outside find no bodies. The site is reported fully extinguished at 6:05 pm on 30 August and crews withdraw. Nothing that could be called a search has happened since.
Dhaka Tribune, bdnews24, Daily Star
Families find bones
At a public hearing, relatives defy the restriction and enter the building. On the third floor they find human bones and at least one skull; 15 fragments are handed to police and sent for forensic testing. Families block the Dhaka–Sylhet highway.
Daily Star, bdnews24
Looted and burned again
Intruders cut the perimeter fence, strip machinery and set the waste section alight — the fourth looting in a month, twelve days after the fire the state says it cannot investigate.
TBS
Seven jailed for looting Gazi Tyres factor
Seven people were jailed for seven days for looting the fire-hit Gazi Tyres factory in Rupganj as investigations into the devastating blaze and missing persons continue.
Dhaka Tribune
The report: 182 missing, arson, no names
The committee submits a 32-page report tracing 182 missing persons by name, address, age and phone number, and classifying the incident as arson rather than accident — but naming no perpetrators. It carries ten recommendations. The first is that the building be removed using modern technology so recovery can proceed; others cover DNA identification of the recovered bones, verification and finalisation of the missing list by an investigative agency, and, until demolition, fencing the structure with warning banners.
bdnews24, Prothom Alo
Weavers, drivers, students, day labourers
Reporting establishes that the missing were mostly local men and boys — weavers, drivers, students, day labourers — whose families, because they were not factory employees, have no formal claim to pursue. The Narayanganj Nagorik Committee publicly calls the official inquiry an evasion.
Dhaka Tribune, bdnews24
Families block the road
Families block the Dhaka–Narayanganj Link Road outside the DC office for an hour, holding photographs. Four months on, they have been told nothing.
TBS
The Anti-Corruption Commission files two cases
The ACC sues Golam Dastagir Gazi and his wife Hasina Gazi over wealth beyond known sources: assets of Tk 448.42 crore, of which Tk 23.51 crore has no verifiable legal source, and Tk 257.75 crore of suspicious transactions across six accounts.
Dhaka Tribune
Tk 400 crore in assets seized
On a CID petition, a Dhaka court orders the seizure of roughly Tk 400 crore of Gazi's assets—including the factory land and structures, 4,879 decimals under 69 deeds in Khadun alone—in a money-laundering investigation unrelated to the fire.
TBS
One year: nothing
Anniversary reporting confirms no search since August 2024, no forensic results returned, no death certificates issued. Families cannot claim widow's allowance or discharge NGO loans because the state has never confirmed the deaths. Police say they have evidence placing 75 of the 182 at the site that night, with the rest under investigation; that verification has never been completed or published.
Prothom Alo, Daily Star, Bangla Tribune
Insurance unpaid, loans in default
A Tk 700 crore insurance claim with two insurers remains unpaid—the state reinsurer is declining claims arising from the post-5 August unrest—and Tk 1,900 crore in loans have turned defaulted. A group official says he hopes to restart auto-rickshaw tyre production in the first quarter of 2026.
TBS
Still, officially, "missing"
The reopening quarter has passed without a reported restart. The building has not been searched, the bones have not been identified, no perpetrator has been named. Coverage of the site in 2026 has been commercial—competitors absorbing the market Gazi Tyres used to hold—rather than investigative. The 182 are still, officially, simply "missing."
Last verified against published reporting, July 2026
Who were they?
They were not, for the most part, factory workers — Gazi Tyres said so from day one and no one has seriously disputed it. They were people from the surrounding neighbourhoods and from districts across the country who lived and worked in Rupganj: power-loom weavers, truck and autorickshaw drivers, battery-factory workers, an electric mechanic, a madrasa student in the eighth grade. Some went to loot. Some went to watch. Some, families say, were simply carried along with neighbours on a chaotic night.
The published reporting carries names, and they belong here. Abdur Rahman was 22, a power-loom worker from Barab; his mother Hormuza Begum says he went in with neighbours. Nur Hossain, 42, drove a truck; he had come from Borhanuddin in Bhola and lived in two rented rooms in Kajipara with his wife Parvin Begum, two daughters and a son, and had taken close to Tk 100,000 in NGO loans his widow still cannot have written off. Abu Bakar Naeem was in the eighth grade at a madrasa ten minutes from the factory gate, boarding in its dormitory; his mother is Nazma Begum. Sajib was 26, a mason's assistant from Gangnagar in Murapara; his family last spoke to him at 9:00 pm, when he was inside. Aman Ullah's mother, Hasina Begum, has said publicly that if the state cannot return a body it should at least return the bones.
These accounts are drawn from published reporting, not from interviews conducted for this archive. Relatives who want a name added, corrected or removed can write to us.
What the state has established about 182 people
In August 2025 police said they had found evidence placing 75 of the missing at the site on the night. The remaining 107 were described as still under investigation. No updated figure has been published since, and no individual has been identified from any physical remains.
Cells are not mapped to named individuals; no such public mapping exists. The grid shows proportion only.
What “missing” has meant for the families
Without recovered remains or an official finding of death, the families exist in administrative limbo. Reporting through 2024–25 documents widows unable to claim allowances, NGO microloans that cannot be waived without a death certificate, households that lost their sole earner, and mothers who say they have stopped asking for bodies and now ask only for charred bones to bury. One year on, The Daily Star visited the homes of 22 missing people; the throughline was not grief alone but the state's indifference to establishing what happened.
The building nobody has entered
There are no photographs on this page. What is known about the inside of this building is known from four sources: a fire service withdrawal report, a BUET structural inspection, a district probe committee that recommended demolition, and the families who climbed the stairs themselves.
Ground floor Established
The fire was set here at about 9:00 pm on 25 August 2024. The gate was locked from outside while people were on the floors above.
Third floor Contested
On 1 September 2024, relatives entered the sealed building and recovered 15 bone fragments and a skull, which were sent for forensic testing. The factory disputes that the remains are human or that they came from this building. No result has ever been published.
Basement Established
The fire never reached it. Crews checked it before withdrawing and found no one.
Floors 3, 4 and 5 Established
Collapsed internally under sustained heat and water pressure. A BUET team found exposed reinforcement, expanded columns and bent beams, and the Fire Service concluded that search and recovery inside was not possible.
The building as a whole Unanswered
Never searched. The probe committee's first recommendation, in September 2024, was that it be removed using modern technology so that recovery could proceed. It still stands.
The compound sits on roughly 45 acres (the probe report measured the affected area at 26.72 acres) in the Rupshi/Khadun area of Tarabo, Rupganj upazila, Narayanganj — beside the Dhaka–Sylhet highway, about 20 km east of central Dhaka. It held at least 16 structures. The fire consumed the six-storey production building, in operation since 2002, where Bangladesh's first locally made commercial-vehicle tyres were produced. Around 3,000 workers lost their jobs. The shell still stands, burnt and sealed.
The photographic record of the fire and its aftermath belongs to the newsrooms that made it. Rather than reproduce it without permission, this archive links to the original reporting in the Sources table, where each frame can be seen in the context it was published in.
What officials did
A day and a half after the fire began, the Narayanganj district administration formed an eight-member committee under an Additional District Magistrate. It held one public hearing, visited the site, and on 12 September 2024 delivered a 32-page report. Its key findings: the fire was arson, not an accident; one group locked the gate and set the fire while people were on the upper floors; 182 people were traceably missing. Its key omission: it named no one. Its ten recommendations — remove the building so recovery can proceed, DNA-test the bones, have investigative agencies identify the planners, verify and finalise the missing list — describe, in effect, the investigation that was never conducted. Established
What officials did not do
No search has taken place since crews withdrew on 30 August 2024, after a BUET team found the structure unsafe to enter. That finding was reasonable; the failure to ever return with a recovery plan was a choice, renewed month after month. The 15 fragments and skull were sent for forensic testing; at the one-year mark the Superintendent of Police said no results had come back, and none have been published since. Verification of the list was begun and abandoned: police said in August 2025 that 75 of the 182 had been placed at the site, with the remainder under investigation. That leaves 107 people about whom the state has, on its own account, reached no conclusion at all. Five criminal cases exist, three over the 5–8 August attacks and two over 25 August, all filed by the factory itself; no outcome concerning the missing has been reported from any of them. Unanswered
The circle nobody broke
The building has never been searched because it has never been demolished, and the record shows why. The Deputy Commissioner said the administration had sealed the structure on safety grounds and that recovery could proceed once it came down — but that demolition was the factory management's job, and no timeline was set. The factory said it had written to the administration and to BUET and received no approval, and that the building was insured and so could not simply be pulled down. The probe committee's answer in the meantime was a warning banner.
No authority has ever taken ownership of breaking that loop. This is the finding the archive most wants on the record, because it is the one that a single administrative decision could fix.
A disputed set of bones
The 15 fragments and the skull are the only physical evidence anyone has produced, and the factory disputes them. Its executive director for administration, Brigadier General (retd) Muhammad Kamruzzaman, told Dhaka Tribune in October 2024 that the Fire Service, the administration and the BUET team had found nothing inside, that people then appeared claiming to have found bones, and that it was unclear whether the remains were human or came from the building at all. He noted the absence of a strong smell of burning he would expect had so many people died there. Nothing in that account can be tested without the forensic results — which is the point. A laboratory report commissioned in September 2024 would settle it. The state has not published one in almost two years, and so the factory's doubt and the families' certainty stand side by side, unresolved by the only body that could resolve them. Contested
The accountability paradox
The one arm of the state that has moved decisively is the CID's Financial Crime Unit — against the factory's owner, and on an entirely separate matter. The seizures have nothing to do with the fire: they arise from a money-laundering investigation into alleged land grabbing, forgery, hundi transfers and trade mis-invoicing, in which Gazi is the accused. In the arson he is the injured party. Courts have nonetheless ordered the seizure of about Tk 400 crore of his assets, including the factory itself, and the CID inventory runs to 4,879 decimals of land under 69 separate deeds in Khadun alone.
That is the comparison worth holding. Asked to establish who owns a strip of ground in Rupganj, the Bangladeshi state produced a deed-by-deed schedule within months. Asked to establish what happened to 182 of its citizens on that same ground, it produced a fenced-off building and a banner. The capacity exists. It was pointed at the property.
Rafiur Rabbi of the Narayanganj Nagorik Committee put the civic verdict plainly in October 2024, describing the official inquiry as an attempt to evade responsibility rather than establish it.
Seven questions, each of them answerable
None requires new evidence. Each requires a document to be released or a decision to be taken.
Whose bones are in forensic custody?
Fifteen fragments and a skull were recovered on 1 September 2024 and sent for testing. Where are the results? A published report would settle both the families' claim and the factory's doubt.
Who breaks the demolition deadlock?
The administration says demolition is the owner's responsibility. The owner says he needs the administration's and BUET's approval, and that the insurers have not settled. “Unsafe” explained a week's delay, not two years. Which office has authority to order it, and what is stopping that office from using it?
Who locked the gate?
The probe report describes a coordinated act — one group looting upstairs, another sealing the exit and setting the fire. Coordination implies organisers. Who were they?
Why did law enforcement not respond during hours of looting?
Factory officials say repeated calls went unanswered; police deny negligence. The 32-page report exists. Publish it, with the response logs.
Where is the final, verified list?
The state's own report recommended it in September 2024. Police said in August 2025 that 75 of the 182 had been placed at the site. The other 107 have never been resolved either way, and no updated figure has been issued since.
Why has no authority initiated legal findings of death?
Without them, 182 families are barred from allowances, inheritance, insurance and loan relief — a second, bureaucratic disappearance layered on the first.
What did the insurers' and BUET's assessments actually find?
Both institutions examined the building. Neither assessment is public. Both are now load-bearing for a decision nobody will take.
Amena Begum still stands in front of the factory. She may know by now that her son is not coming back. She stands anyway. Because when the state turns its face away, a mother standing there is the last testimony, the last document.
How this archive was built
The archive's researchers compiled, cross-checked and dated every claim against published reporting from Bangladeshi national outlets and wire services. Where outlets disagree — on the missing count, on how long the fire burned, on crowd size — we give the range and cite each figure to its source rather than choosing the most striking number. Where a central fact is contested, including the provenance of the recovered bones, we set out both positions and label them. Family testimony described here is drawn from the cited reports, not from interviews conducted for this archive.
Every claim on this page carries one of three labels. Established means multiple independent outlets, or an official document, agree. Contested means named parties disagree on the record and no authority has resolved it. Unanswered means the question has been formally put to a public body — usually by that body's own investigators — and no answer has been published.
| Story | Link | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2024 | The Daily Star | 174 reported missing | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | Dhaka Tribune | 175 missing, alleged looting before blaze | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | Dhaka Tribune | Fire under control after 19 hrs (counted from alert) | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | The Business Standard | Fire under control after 22 hours | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | Prothom Alo | Factory still burning as looting continues | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | bdnews24 | 14 hours on, fire not under control | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | BSS (state wire) | Efforts underway to control blaze | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2024 | Prothom Alo | 173 names on the Fire Service list | Link ↗ |
| 27 Aug 2024 | The Daily Star | Fire doused after 32 hrs; collapse risk | Link ↗ |
| 27 Aug 2024 | Dhaka Tribune | Families wait in agony | Link ↗ |
| 27 Aug 2024 | The Business Standard | Eight-member probe body formed over alleged arson | Link ↗ |
| 29 Aug 2024 | Dhaka Tribune | Over 130 missing, no bodies found | Link ↗ |
| 29 Aug 2024 | bdnews24 | BUET inspection: recovery inside 'very dangerous' | Link ↗ |
| 31 Aug 2024 | The Daily Star | Fire fully out after five days; no bodies found | Link ↗ |
| 1 Sep 2024 | The Daily Star | Remains found inside factory | Link ↗ |
| 2 Sep 2024 | The Daily Star (opinion) | A wake-up call for intelligence reform | Link ↗ |
| 6 Sep 2024 | The Business Standard | Factory looted, set ablaze yet again | Link ↗ |
| 9 Sep 2024 | Dhaka Tribune | Seven jailed for looting Gazi Tyres factory | Link ↗ |
| 18 Sep 2024 | The Daily Star | Workers face the fallout of the destruction | Link ↗ |
| 10 Oct 2024 | Dhaka Tribune | What happened to the missing? | Link ↗ |
| 20 Oct 2024 | bdnews24 | Report traces 182 missing; cover-up claims | Link ↗ |
| 24 Oct 2024 | The Daily Star | Families waiting for closure amid administration's apathy | Link ↗ |
| 29 Dec 2024 | The Business Standard | Families block road in protest | Link ↗ |
| 5 Mar 2025 | Dhaka Tribune | ACC sues Gazi and wife over undisclosed wealth | Link ↗ |
| 16 Jul 2025 | The Business Standard | CID seizes Tk400cr of Gazi's assets | Link ↗ |
| 24 Aug 2025 | The Daily Star | One year: families still waiting | Link ↗ |
| 25 Aug 2025 | Bangla Tribune | Police say 75 of the 182 traced to the scene | Link ↗ |
| 26 Aug 2025 | Prothom Alo | No trace of missing 182 after a year | Link ↗ |
| 10 Dec 2025 | The Business Standard | Unpaid insurance, default loans stall relaunch | Link ↗ |
The Gazi Tyres factory fire
On the night of 25 August 2024, a tyre factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj was looted and set alight. The fire burned for five days. The district administration's own inquiry committee recorded 182 people missing. No one has been inside the building since 30 August 2024.
This is a counter-archive: a record assembled from published reporting, sorted into what is established, what is contested, and what the state has left unanswered. Every claim is dated and traceable to its source.
Research, reporting and analysis by Shibli Sadik Sifat.
Family testimony as reported by news reporters.
Drik Gallery, Dhaka · August 2026
Our standards are ordinary ones. We publish only what is traceable to a named, dated, linked source. We say when sources disagree, and we do not resolve their disagreements by preference. We distinguish what the state has found from what it has failed to look for, and we do not treat the second as evidence for a theory about the first. Where we have made a claim we cannot support, we withdraw it in public.
We correct errors promptly. If you are a relative of a missing person, a witness, or hold documents relevant to this record — the probe committee's report, the BUET assessment, the insurers' correspondence, the forensic results. We treat all contact confidentially and will not publish a name without permission.
This site takes no position on the guilt or innocence of any individual in pending criminal or financial proceedings. Golam Dastagir Gazi is in custody facing charges he has the right to contest in court; the asset seizures described here are court-ordered investigative measures in a separate matter, not convictions, and in the events of 25 August 2024 he is the injured party.