‘Fardin was picked in Leguna at 2am, taken to Tarabo’

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Fardin Noor Parash was last seen at the capital’s Jatrabari. Several youths were seen picking him in a Leguna and taking him to Tarabo area of Narayanganj at 2 am on the day of the incident, according to the Detective Branch (DB) of police.

The driver of that Leguna and his associate are being searched, the DB police said.

Harun-or-Rashid, the chief of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), came up with the information while addressing a press conference on Thursday (November 17) noon.

“We are yet to get any concrete clue on how and where Fardin was killed,” the DB chief added.

Earlier on November 16, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ataullah sent Amatullah Bushra, friend of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Fardin Noor Parash, to jail in connection with a case filed over Fardin’s death on completion of five-day remand.

On November 10, the court placed Bushra on five-day remand.

On November 7, police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakshya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj three days after he went missing.

On November 8, Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.

On November 9, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed a case against his son’s friend Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd-year student of East West University, and several unidentified people in connection with the death at Rampura police station.