Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today (November 10, 2022) said, the primary suspicion is that Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash was murdered.
“How Fardin’s body ended up in Shitalakhkhya river is being investigated,” he said in a response to questions from reporters at Rajarbagh Police Lines in Dhaka.
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He also said Fardin’s last location was tracked in Gazipur. “How his body ended up in the river from Gazipur is being investigated,” the home minister said.
He said investigation is underway, treating it as a murder.
It will be possible to share details after the investigation is complete and report is received, he added.
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Those behind Fardin’s death will be brought to justice after identifying them, he said.
Fardin was a 3rd year student of BUET’s civil engineering department and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj's Fatullah.
Police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.
Earlier today, Police arrested Fardin’s friend Amatullah Bushra, 3rd year student of East West University, from her Banasree home in Dhaka.
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Deceased’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed a case against Bushra and several unidentified people in connection with his son’s death with Rampura Police Station, said Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station.
On November 8, Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on BUET student Fardin’s head and body.