<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A Dhaka court on Thursday granted permanent bail to Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd year student of East West University, in a case over the death of her friend and Buet student Fardin Noor Parash.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanto Islam Mallik passed the order, said lawyer Sabbir Ahmed Sajib.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On February 6, Inspector Yeasin Shikdar of DB police submitted the final report seeking exemption of Bushra from the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fardin’s father submitted a naraji (no-confidence) petition over the DB’s final report and the court fixed April 16 for hearing the petition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On January 8, a Dhaka court granted bail to Bushra in the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bushra was in jail for almost two months in the case after the death of Fardin in November last, despite investigation agencies failing to find any evidence connecting her to her friend's death.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police submitted a report on December 15 saying that Bushra has no connection with the death of Fardin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bushra was arrested from her Banasree home in Dhaka on November 10, 2022 as Fardin’s father filed a case on November 9 after recovery of his son’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After a long 38-day investigation, the Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Harunur Rashid on December 14 said that Fardin roamed alone in different areas of Dhaka 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;">Fardin was 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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police recovered Fardin’s body 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 and the case was later transferred to Detective Branch (DB) Police. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>