Fardin died by suicide: RAB, DB

 

Live Correspondent: Fardin Noor Parish, a BUET student who was found dead in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj last month, took his own life, the law-enforcing agencies say.

The Detective Branch (DB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) came up with the findings at separate media briefings on Wednesday amid the anger and frustration of Fardin's family and his peers at the university over the investigators' failure to make credible headway in the case.

The 24-year-old student of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) jumped from Sultana Kamal Bridge to his death in Dhaka's Demra in the small hours of Nov 5, according to DB and the RAB.

Harun-ar-Rashid, chief of the Detective Branch, said Fardin appeared to be mentally disturbed due to "bad results" and "a lack of money" to travel to Spain where he was supposed to contest an international debate competition.

"He did not know how to swim. From all of these, it appeared to us that it is a case of suicide."

Fardin left home in Demra's Konapara for a BUET hall of residence on Nov 4, saying he would study with his friends for an exam the following day.

But he did not appear for the exam, prompting his friends to inform the family of the development. The family then filed a general diary with the police in Rampura, where he was seen for the last time.

Fardin's female friend Amatullah Bushra, a private university student, said he had dropped her there at night.

Police arrested her after Fardin's family filed a murder case following the recovery of his body from the river three days later.

The forensic doctor, who conducted the autopsy, said Fardin was murdered the night he had gone missing. He was also tortured before being killed, the doctor said.

The Detective Branch was given the charge of investigating the case, while the RAB is conducting a shadow investigation.

Citing CCTV footage and mobile phone location data, the investigators had earlier said Fardin might have been killed by drug peddlers at Chanpara in Narayanganj’s Rupganj after he traveled to several other places.

His family and friends dismissed the claim, saying Fardin had no reason to travel to the drug peddling hotspot as he had a test the next day and he was not a smoker, let alone a drug abuser.

Dhaka, 14 December (campuslive24.com)//AZ

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