The body of the missing university student from Dhaka was found in Habiganj

Published: 5 May 2026, 08:31 PM

Police recovered the half-melted body of Mohammad Farhad Hossain alias Mahir (23), a private university student missing from Uttarkhan Chanpara area of ​​the capital, from Madhavpur in Habiganj. Four days after the disappearance, the body was recovered from a bush on the side of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Anandura union of Madhavpur upazila on Tuesday afternoon.

The deceased Farhad is the son of Abdul Awal of Uttarkhan area of ​​Dhaka. He was a student of the Uttara branch of the private World University. Farhad disappeared after leaving home on the night of April 30. Later, a general diary (GD) was filed at the police station on behalf of the relatives, but he was not found.

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According to police and family sources, the police arrested a person named Mridul Sarkar (20) for his involvement in Farhad’s disappearance. According to his confession, today Badda Police Station-Police of Dhaka and Madhavpur Police Station-Police of Habiganj recovered Farhad’s body from a bush on the side of Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Anandura Union of Upazila. Later Farhad’s brother Arif Hossain identified the body.

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During the interrogation of the arrested Mridul Sarkar, the police said that on the evening of his disappearance, Farhad Hossain was taken to a residence in Aftabnagar of the capital and tortured and killed in a premeditated manner. On May 1, the body was dumped at that place in Madhavpur via Narsingdi, Brahmanbaria. The police initially believe that the murder was caused by a personal conflict and an extramarital love affair.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Madhavpur Police Station Sohel Rana told Prothom Alo that the body condition report was prepared and sent to Habiganj Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. After post-mortem, the body was handed over to the family.

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