Bushra gets bail in Fardin murder case

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

Judge Tahsin Iftekhar of Dhaka’s 7th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court passed the order after hearing from both sides on Sunday (January 8).

The bail order will remain upheld until the submission of the investigation report, the judge said.

Earlier on January 5, the court set today (January 8) for passing its order on Bushra’s bail.

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

The decomposed body of Fardin, 23, was recovered from the river Sitalakhya in Siddhirganj, 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.