Court Correspondent :
University of Toronto student Tahmid Hasib Khan was cleared of all charges on Wednesday while Abul Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of North South University implicated as a key accused in the Gulshan terror attack.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday acquitted Hasnat and Tahmid of the charges brought against them under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in the case filed for Gulshan terror attack.
Magistrate Nurun Nabi of the court set Tahmid free after hearing but Hasnat will remain behind the bars as he was shown arrested in the case filedHasnat, Tahmid on July 4 with Gulshan Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Tahmid, who secured bail from a Dhaka court on October 2, was present at the court during the hearing. He is no more an accused Under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). However, Hasnat is in the jail.
A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested Hasnat and Tahmid from the capital’s Gulshan and Bashundhara areas on August 3 in connection with their suspected link to the attack. They were shown arrested Under Section 54 of the CrPC.
The due were rescued with 11 others during the commando operation at the Holey Artisan Bakery at the city’s diplomatic zone Gulshan on July 2 following a 12-hour hostage standoff.
Their family members claimed that they had remained traceless since then. However, law enforcing agencies say they set them free after interrogation over the café’ attack.
Twenty hostages, including 17 foreign nationals, were killed by militants, while five militants and one suspected associate of the attackers were killed during a commando operation in the café on July 2. The hostages, including the foreign citizens and two police officers were killed in the attack of the militants. Five militants and a suspected associate of the attackers were also killed during the commando operation in the café on July 2 morning.
