Amatullah Bushra – who is accused in a case filed over the death of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Porosh – has been freed on bail from the Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail in Gazipur.
Bushra’s father picked her up from in front of the jail around 2pm on Tuesday.
Confirming the matter, jailer Farhana Akter said, “Court documents underwent scrutiny after arriving in jail. Bushra was released after due process.”
On January 5, the court fixed Sunday for passing its order on the bail petition. Bushra was languishing in jail for almost two months in the case despite investigation agencies failing to find any evidence connecting her to her friend's death.
On December 15 last year, Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Harunur Rashid said they would give a report to the court that Bushra has no connection with the death of Fardin.
Bushra was arrested from her Banasree home in Dhaka on November 10 soon after the recovery of Fardin’s body. She was sent to jail after the expiry of her five-day remand on November 16.
After a long 38-day investigation, the DB chief said on December 14 that Fardin roamed alone in different areas of Dhaka before he went missing.
“Fardin was not murdered, he committed suicide by jumping into the river from Sultana Kamal Bridge on November 4 out of desperation,” he said.
Fardin was a third-year student at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’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.
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.
Kazi Nuruddin Rana, Fardin’s father, filed a case in connection with his son’s killing at Rampura Police Station on the same day, and the case was later transferred to Detective Branch (DB) Police.
