Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Friday said that the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Detective Branch (DB) of police must have revealed the reason behind the death of BUET student Fardin Noor Parash after proper analysis.
He said this in a response to reporters after paying homage at the Martyrs' Memorial of Rajarbagh Police Line in the capital marking Victory Day.
Regarding DB’s report revealing Fardin’s death by suicide, the minister said, “RAB and DB police are working on this case. They can say it well.”
After a long 38-day investigation, on December 14, Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Harunur Rashid claimed that Fardin died by suicide after scrutinising the footage regarding Fardin’s movement before his death.
Then he went to Sultana Kamal Bridge around 2:34 am on November 4. He was alone on the bridge till 2:37 am, he said.
“He didn’t know swimming and we believe that Fardin committed suicide by jumping off Sultana Kamal Bridge,” he added.
However, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin said that his son did not kill himself, he was murdered.
Meanwhile, DB police will give a report to the court that Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd-year student of East West University who is now in jail, has no connection with Fardin’s death, said DB chief on Thursday.
Fardin was a 3rd-year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’s (BUET) civil engineering department and a resident of the 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.
