Amatullah Bushra, friend of BUET student Fardeen Noor Parash, has been granted bail by a court two months after she was first detained in connection with his death.
Dhaka’s Additional Metropolitan Sessions Court-7 Judge Tehseen Iftikhar granted him interim bail on Sunday. His bail will continue till the police submits the investigation report in the matter.
On 16 November, a court rejected the bail plea of Bushra after interrogating her in police custody for five days and sending her to jail. On 5 December, the magistrate’s court once again rejected his bail plea. She then took the matter to the judge’s court.
The petition came up for hearing on Thursday and the court fixed Sunday for the verdict.
Fardeen, 24, left his home in Dhaka’s Demra after lunch on November 4, saying he would study with his friends overnight at a residential hall and return home the next day after an exam, much to the dismay of his family. According. His body was found floating in the Sheetlakhya river in Narayanganj on 7 November.
