On Wednesday (November 11), West Bengal resident Biyas Basu said these things in a Facebook post. In the post, she said that she became friends with Asad Nur in 2016. Although they met in 2017, due to special personal reasons that friendship broke within a few days. On December 25 of the same year, Asad was arrested under the blasphemy law and went to prison in Bangladesh. From the airport he called Biyas; later he also sent a handwritten letter from prison.
Biyas said that out of humanitarian urgency, she went to Bangladesh and tried to get Asad released from prison. When he was arrested again a few days after his release, she went to Bangladesh again to secure his release. In this way, she went to Bangladesh several times and tried to get Asad released. At one point, after being released, Asad went to Kolkata; however, due to his own wrong decision, he had to go to prison there too. Biyas thinks that over this long period, a kind of emotional relationship had developed between her and Asad. According to her, within their six-year friendship, Asad was in prison in Bangladesh and India for one and a half to two years; a large part of the remaining time was spent during the COVID period.
In explaining their relationship, Biyas made clear that she never had a marriage or live-in relationship with Asad; there was communication and a good friendship between them. However, she acknowledged that emotional involvement and her dependence on Asad had developed. Due to disagreements over personal matters, a complete separation occurred between them in 2022; since then there has been no communication.
Calling for an end to discussions about past relationships on social media, Biyas said that in people's lives friendships come and break; love and relationships also form and end—these are normal events of life. But she considers it an abnormal mentality to highlight such normal matters abnormally and discuss them year after year. She further said that in 2026, there should be an end to unnecessary discussion and filth about who one's ex was in 2020 and why they became an ex; she also commented that dwelling on who had or has a relationship with whom is a medieval mentality. Requesting not to embarrass her by asking questions about personal matters, she said she is well in her own life and moving forward in her own way. At the end of the post, wishing Asad Nur well, Biyas wrote, may his life be beautiful, may it be filled with happiness and prosperity.
