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2 weeks gone, no headway
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arrested his friend Amatullah Bushra from Banasree in a case filed by the deceased’s father.
However, investigators did not find her involvement in the killing yet.
They said Fardin left his Demra house around 3:00pm on November 4 to go to his university. But he was with Bushra from 5:00pm to 10:00pm, after which hedropped her off near her home in Banasree.
According to law enforcement findings, mobile radio tower locations and CCTV footages, Fardin was traced in Dhanmondi at 5:51pm, in Rampura 9:57pm, in Zinzira at 10:35pm, Shuvadda of Keraniganj at 10:53pm, Johnson Road area at 11:09pm and Gulistan Patal Market area at 12:50am.
At 2:01am, he was located in Jatrabari’s Bibirbagicha area.
Analysing multiple CCTV footages, police claimed to identify a young man as Fardin, who was seen boarding a human hauler along with four people from Jatrabari intersection at 2:13am. He was seen getting off at Demra Staff Quarter intersection at 2:27am.
He and the four others were then seen getting on a CNG-run autorickshaw, which took them to Chonpara at 2:34am.
Speaking to The Daily Star, Fardin’s father Noor Uddin Rana said he has seen all three footages.
“In the Rampura footage, I confirmed it was my son Fardin. In the Jatrabari footage, it seemed like my son because I recognised his walk. But in the next footage at Demra Staff Quarters, I could not understand anything.
“I told them [journalists] it can’t be my son. In the footage from after boarding the human hauler to getting on CNG, that is not my son. He [Fardin] did not walk the same way the boy in the footage walked.”
Rana lamented that some journalists reported he confirmed it was Fardin all along, though he never said anything like that.
“I am very upset about everything. The media trial is going on from the beginning … The investigation should not be diverted into different directions.
“No one is verifying whether Fardinwas fed anything [any intoxicants] or whether he was trapped … I’m not giving up hope. We hope a fair investigation will disclose everything.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of Buet students demonstrated on campus yesterday, demanding proper investigation and identification of the killers.
One of the protesters, Mashiat Zahin said, “Fardin has no connection with any crime or such [drug] gangs. We never knew or heard of any such things from anyone. Besides, he did not even have any romantic relationship with anyone, which some media had written.
“We have faith in the law enforcers. We hope they will conduct a fair investigation and find out the perpetrators as soon as possible.”
Shadman, a batchmate of Fardin, said, “He was our class representative. He was a very responsible student and, as far as we knew, he had no enemies.”
About the recent developments, he said, “It seems unnatural to us that his last location was that place. We had an exam the next day, so he was not meant to be there at that hour.”
Responding to a question, he said, “We are not sure if it was Fardin in that CCTV footage. We don’t want to make further comments. The law enforcers should work on it.”

Duronto
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He said there would be more details today.
Rejecting PBI’s finding, Duronto’s younger sister Shashwatee Biplob demanded further investigation.
She said it was clearly mentioned in the post mortem report that Duronto was murdered as there were injury marks in his chest and head.
On November 12, the body of Biplob was found in the river in Narayanganj’s Fatullah, five days after he went missing.
Duronto was a member of the agriculture and cooperatives sub-committee of the Awami League.
A farmer by profession, he was also the former general secretary of Jahangirnagar University’s Chhatra League unit.
Before he went missing, the last location of his mobile phone was tracked to Muslimbagh of Kamrangirchar, family members said.