<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Kazi Nuruddin Rana, father of Buet student Fardin Noor, who was found dead in Shitalakhkhya River on November 7, last year, filed a petition seeking time to file a no-confidence petition against the DB report saying that he died by suicide.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kazi Nuruddin Rana, filed the petition before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam on Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court also fixed March 16 for hearing the petition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, on February 6, DB police submitted the final report before a Dhaka court clearing Amatullah Bushra, a private university student, of the murder charges in the case and settling that Fardin died by suicide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court also fixed February 14 for hearing the final report of DB.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, Advocate Habibur Rahman filed a petition seeking permanent bail to Bushra in the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court also extended her bail till March 16.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">DB Inspector Yasin Shikder, also the investigating officer of the case, submitted the report to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fardin, a 3rd year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’s civil engineering department and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj's Fatullah was found dead from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kazi Nuruddin Rana, Fardin’s father, filed a case in connection with his son’s killing with Rampura Police Station on the same day. The case was later transferred to Detective Branch (DB) Police.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, DB police arrested Bushra from her Banasree residence in Dhaka on November 10.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After a long 38-day investigation, the DB chief said on December 14 that Fardin roamed alone around different areas of Dhaka on the night of November 4 before he went missing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Fardin was not murdered, he committed suicide by jumping into the river from Sultana Kamal Bridge on November 4 out of desperation,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On January 8, Judge Tahsin Iftekhar of Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court-7 granted bail to Bushra in the case after hearing a bail petition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On January 10, Bushra walked out of the Kashimpur Women's Central Jail, two months after her arrest. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>