Fnu Kamruzzaman biography: 13 things about Bangladeshi man

Fnu Kamruzzaman is a Bangladeshi man residing in the United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is a native and citizen of Bangladesh. (a)
2. On July 27, 2012, he was admitted to the U.S. pursuant to an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa. (a)
3. On October 6, 2015, he was granted an extension of his student visa, specifically for the purpose of permitting him to attend ASA College in New York City, New York, USA. He has not attended the school since May 2018. (a)
4. In 2014, he was arrested after rubbing against a 15-year-old girl on a subway train in Manhattan, New York City. (b)
5. On July 20, 2015, he was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse in the New York State Supreme Court in New York County. For this conviction, he was sentenced to 10 months of probation. He later pleaded guilty to violating probation and was charged with resisting arrest and re-sentenced to two years in prison and three years of post-release supervision. (a)
6. On September 11, 2015, he filed a notice of appeal but he never perfected the appeal. (a)
7. At around 10:20 a.m. on August 4, 2017, he exposed himself to a 36-year-old off-duty female police officer and rubbed his genitals on her while they were on a Manhattan-bound train. After a confrontation with her, he fled without a shirt and left his backpack behind. He was arrested and charged with forcible touching and sex abuse on August 5, 2017 and was arraigned and held on $20,000 bail on August 6, 2017. He was an ASA College student and represented by Christine McKeithan at the time. (b) (c) 
8. Upon his release by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) on April 17, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took him into custody pending the completion of his removal proceedings. On June 17, 2019, he appeared with an attorney for his removal hearing and bond hearing, which were rescheduled to July 8, 2019 to July 29, 2019 to August 12, 2019. His lawyer filed a motion to withdraw as a counsel, which was granted on August 9, 2019. (a)
9. When he appeared in immigration court on August 12, 2019, he requested for a Bengali interpreter, which was not immediately available so the hearings had to be rescheduled to August 26, 2019. (a)
10. A Bengali interpreter was present when he appeared before an immigration judge on August 26, 2019. He admitted that he was not compliant with his student visa status but denied removability based upon his criminal convictions. He appeared again in court without a lawyer on October 7, 2019, on October 21, 2019 and on December 5, 2019. (a)
11. He filed a petition challenging his continued  detention in the custody of the DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pending the completion of removal proceedings against him, which was dismissed on December 27, 2019. (a)
12. He was accused of masturbating in front of a woman on a train as it was arriving at the Court Square subway station in New York City on January 5, 2021. The woman took a photo of him and reported him to the police. (d)
13. He was 30 years old when he was arrested and charged with public lewdness on January 20, 2021, the same day 46th U.S. president Joe Biden and 49th U.S. vice president Kamala Harris were inaugurated. (d)

SOURCES:

• a. Kamruzzaman v. Searls, 19-CV-6824 CJS (W.D.N.Y. May. 14, 2020)
• b. New York Post
• c. New York Daily News
• d. New York Post