Holey Artisan attack: 2 Neo-JMB men put on remand

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Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday placed two Neo-JMB members including Hadisur Rahman Sagar on remand.
Sagar, allegedly supplied bombs during the Holey Artisan attack. Magistrate Raihanul Haque of the CMM Court granted seven-day remand to question Sagar. Meanwhile, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Haque granted a six-day remand for quizzing accused Akram Hosen Niloy, who was the mastermind of Hotel Olio International blast at Panthapath of city.
Earlier, law enforcers produced the two accused in the courts onThursday with a 10-day remand prayer.
According to the sources of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Sagar, who hails from Joypurhat, allegedly supplied arms and grenades during the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Gulshan that left 20 dead including 17 foreigners in 2016.
Niloy, hailing from Kishoreganj, is the alleged mastermind of the Hotel Olio International blast in the Panthapath area of the city on August 15 last year, sources of the CTTC further said. Earlier on the day, a team of Bogra police arrested Sagar, 36, and Niloy, 26, from Shibganj upazila of the district. Later, the two accused were handed over to CTTC unit, Mohibul Islam Khan, Deputy Commissioner of the unit, told newsmen.  
Tamim Chowdhury, a suspected mastermind of the Gulshan café attack, killed during a raid in Narayanganj, brought Hadisur to Neo-JMB. Before joining the Neo-JMB in 2015, he was a member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

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