A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to Amatullah Bushra, a suspect in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash murder case.

And the bail order will remain upheld until the submission of the investigation report.

Judge Tahsin Iftekhar of Dhaka's 7th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the order after hearing from both sides.

On January 5, the court fixed today (December 8) for passing its order on Bushra's bail.

Bushra, a friend of Fardin, has been detained for nearly two months even though investigators from the Detective Branch of police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have so far found no indication that Bushra had a connection to Fardin's death.

DB officials said that they would submit their report to the court, clearing the student of any wrongdoing.

The decomposed body of Fardin, 23, was recovered from the river Sitalakhya in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.

Fardin's father, Nuruddin, informed the police that his son left their Konapara house in Demra on Friday, saying that he had an academic test the following day.

Fardin was with Bushra for hours on November 4 after he left his house for the BUET campus.

Bushra was arrested and placed on remand in police custody in connection with the murder case filed by Fardin's father.

Bushra's family maintained that she was innocent and had nothing to do with the death.

In mid-December, DB and RAB, in separate briefings, claimed that Fardin's death was a suicide case as he jumped off a bridge into the river Sitalakhya.

Bushra's family, however, could not secure her bail since the court was on vacation, said her father, Manjurul Islam.