Following in his slain brother Abrar Fahad’s footsteps, Abrar Faiyaj has decided to get enrolled at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).
He announced his decision in a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon.
Faiyaj said he had decided to study mechanical engineering there after consulting with his parents.
He added that his parents had asked him to make his own choice.
Faiyaj thanked everyone who had given him suggestions in this regard, particularly his teachers.
He said many were concerned whether he would be safe at the university where his brother had been murdered, or if he would find the place depresing. In response he said such concerns had never crossed his mind, and added that he would be happy to stay at Buet’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall, where his brother used to stay.
Abrar Faiyaj got accepted not only to Buet, but he also cleared Dhaka University’s A Unit entry test. He is currently enrolled at the computer science department of Islamic University of Technology (IUT) in Gazipur.
Abrar Fahad, a second-year student of the electrical and electronic engineering department of Buet, was brutally killed after being tortured overnight by Chhatra League leaders and activists inside Sher-e-Bangla Hall on October 6, 2019.
Abrar’s father filed a murder case at Chawkbazar police station in this connection.
After investigating the case, the police pressed charges against 25 Buet students on November 13, 2019. A Dhaka court indicted them on September 15 last year.
More than two years after the murder, on December 6, 2021, the court sentenced 20 people to death and five to life imprisonment for the murder.