Bushra gets bail in BUET student Fardin death case

Buet student Fardin whose body has been recovered from River Sitalakhya.

A Dhaka court today granted bail to Amatullah Bushra, a suspect in a case filed about the death of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash.

Judge Tahsin Iftekhar of the Seventh Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order after hearing from both sides on Sunday. The bail order will remain upheld until the submission of the investigation report, the court said.

Earlier on January 5, the court fixed January 8 for passing its order on Bushra’s bail.

Bushra, an alleged friend of Fardin, was arrested for nearly two months ago even though investigators from the Detective Branch (DB) of police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have so far found no indication that Bushra had any connection with Fardin’s death.

The decomposed body of Fardin, 23, was recovered from the river Sitalakhya in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.

Fardin’s father, Nuruddin, informed the police that his son left their Konapara house in Demra on November 4, saying that he had an academic test the following day.

Fardin was with Bushra for hours on November 4 after he left his house for the BUET campus.

Bushra was arrested and placed on five-day remand in police custody on November 10 in connection with the murder case filed by Fardin’s father. On November 16, Bushra was sent to jail on completion of the remand. - Special Correspondent