Online Desk: 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. Kazi Nuruddin Rana, filed the petition before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam on Tuesday. The court also fixed March 16 for hearing the petition, reports UNB.

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. The court also fixed February 14 for hearing the final report of DB. Besides, Advocate Habibur Rahman filed a petition seeking permanent bail to Bushra in the case. The court also extended her bail till March 16. DB Inspector Yasin Shikder, also the investigating officer of the case, submitted the report to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.

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. 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.

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. Meanwhile, DB police arrested Bushra from her Banasree residence in Dhaka on November 10. 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.

“Fardin was not murdered, he committed suicide by jumping into the river from Sultana Kamal Bridge on November 4 out of desperation,” he said. 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. On January 10, Bushra walked out of the Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail, two months after her arrest.