Staff Reporter :
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap with the Islamic State (IS) logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.
DMP Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam will lead the committee formed on Wednesday night, Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (media) of DMP said yesterday.
The committee has been asked to submit its report in three working days.
As soon as a Dhaka court finished delivering
the judgement in the country’s worst ever-terrorist attack case Wednesday, Rakibul Islam alias Regan, one of the convicts who was in the dock, wore the cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State, a global militant outfit.
Rakibul still had the cap on when police brought him out of the courtroom and took him to a prison van parked on the court premises. Inside the van, another death row convict, Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, was seen wearing a similar cap.
But from where did the cap come? That was the question that dominated everyone’s conversation both in the court and on the social media.
Security analysts say carrying prayer caps emblazoned with such logos to the courtroom is a security breach.
Earlier, a three-member committee headed by the Additional IG prisons has been formed to investigate whether the jail authorities had any involvement in this matter, said Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mostafa Kamal Pasha.
Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal on Wednesday sentenced seven militants to death for their involvement in the 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery attack, terming it a disgraceful attack aimed at assassinating the non-communal character of Bangladesh.
The court also acquitted one accused as it found him not guilty in the atrocity that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead in the capital’s Gulshan.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap with the Islamic State (IS) logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.
DMP Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam will lead the committee formed on Wednesday night, Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (media) of DMP said yesterday.
The committee has been asked to submit its report in three working days.
As soon as a Dhaka court finished delivering
the judgement in the country’s worst ever-terrorist attack case Wednesday, Rakibul Islam alias Regan, one of the convicts who was in the dock, wore the cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State, a global militant outfit.
Rakibul still had the cap on when police brought him out of the courtroom and took him to a prison van parked on the court premises. Inside the van, another death row convict, Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, was seen wearing a similar cap.
But from where did the cap come? That was the question that dominated everyone’s conversation both in the court and on the social media.
Security analysts say carrying prayer caps emblazoned with such logos to the courtroom is a security breach.
Earlier, a three-member committee headed by the Additional IG prisons has been formed to investigate whether the jail authorities had any involvement in this matter, said Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mostafa Kamal Pasha.
Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal on Wednesday sentenced seven militants to death for their involvement in the 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery attack, terming it a disgraceful attack aimed at assassinating the non-communal character of Bangladesh.
The court also acquitted one accused as it found him not guilty in the atrocity that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead in the capital’s Gulshan.
