Police arrested Amatullah Bushra, friend of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash – whose body was recovered from Shitalakhkhya river on November 7 – from her Banasree home in Dhaka today (November 10, 2022).

Police conducted a drive at Bushra’s house and arrested her in the morning, Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station, said.

Earlier in the day, Kazi Nuruddin Rana, Fardin’s father, filed a case against Bushra and several unidentified people in connection with his son’s death with Rampura Police Station, said the OC.

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Bushra is a 3rd year student of East West University.

Police recovered Fardin's body from the Shitalakhkhya river, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.

On November 4, Fardin left home and did not return. He was also unreachable on the phone.

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Later, Fardin’s father lodged a general diary with Rampura Police in this regard.

Fardin was a 3rd-year student of Buet’s civil engineering department and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj's Fatullah.

On Tuesday, 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.

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Police have detained two friends of Fardin for interrogation, Maniruzzaman Moni, officer-in-charge of Narayanganj River Police, said.

Fardin’s father on Tuesday said that his son was murdered and demanded justice.

"I may not get my son back, but I want justice. It is not difficult to identify the culprits and killers by tracking his mobile phone location," he said after Fardin’s namaz-e-janaza at Buet Central Mosque, on Tuesday (November 08, 2022).

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