Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash may have been murdered somewhere in Dhaka, said the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
Addressing a press conference at the DMP media centre in Dhaka on Saturday Additional Commissioner of Police Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid said, “Based on the data analysis of Fardin's mobile phone and the information given by people he talked to in different places, it seems that Fardin might have been murdered somewhere in Dhaka city.
“According to the analysis, we also spotted Narayanganj as another location. We cannot disclose everything at the moment for the sake of investigation.”
On November 7, police recovered the body of Fardin, who was a third-year student of the civil engineering department, from the Shitalakshya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj, three days after he went missing.
On November 8, his autopsy was conducted at Narayanganj General Hospital. Doctors said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.
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At the press conference, Harun said the victim's father first filed a general diary (GD) and later filed a case over Fardin’s murder.
“We have arrested the prime accused, Amatullah Bushra, in the case. But at the moment, we are not saying that she is responsible for the murder, though her name appeared in the first information report. We are interrogating Bushra after taking her into custody.”
He added that the detectives have utilised technology to identify the places where Fardin visited before his death. However, the DB police and the investigating agency are working to find more clues.
Asked, whether the murder was related to drugs or not, Harun said they never made any such claims, and the DB team is working on every lead. “We are yet to figure out what actually happened,” he told reporters.
On November 10, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed a case against his son’s friend Amatullah Bushra, a third-year student of East West University, and several unidentified people in connection with the death with Rampura police station.
Bushra was placed on a five-day remand on the same day after being arrested from her Banasree home in Dhaka.
