After the Partition of India he moved with his family to Arangghata, Daulatpur thana, Khulna, East Bengal, Pakistan.

His book Jana Sankhya O Sampad won the National Bank Literary Award in 1964.

He provided medical treatment and financial help to members of Mukti Bahini during Bangladesh Liberation war.

[2] His body was recovered from a mass grave in Mirpur thana on 3 January 1972 after the end of the war.

[3] On 3 November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists and three physicians including Dr. Martuza – in December 1971.