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. The body of the 24-year-old was found floating in the Sheetlakhya river in Narayanganj on November 7.
A student of East West University’s English department, Bushra knew Fardeen, a third-year civil engineering student, through her involvement in the debate team, but claimed that the two were not in a romantic relationship.
There was video footage of them together on the day of Fardeen’s disappearance, but there was no indication that he killed her or forced her to do anything untoward.
Fardeen’s father Noor Uddin Rana initially filed a general diary entry at the Rampura police station, naming Bushra as the sole suspect, before registering a murder case after her body was found.
Noor Uddin has said that he did not agree that his son could have committed suicide.