Staff Reporter :
Nizamuddin alias Nizam, father of Marzan, one of the masterminds of Gulshan café attack, was picked up by police from Afuria village in Pabna on Monday night for interrogation.
Earlier in the morning, Nizamuddin identified his son as Nurul Islam Marzan, a student of Arabic Department of Chittagong University.
“After seeing the photo published in different media, we became confirmed about him,” said Nizamuddin.
“Marzan, along with his wife, has been missing for about eight months from Afuria village in Pabna,” he said.
Marzan is a student of Arabic Department of Chittagong University, his father added.
Abdul Mannan, Aditional Dputy Cmmissioner of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, said two families-one from Pabna and other from Chandpur-contacted with police through facebook and hello city apps about the identities of Marzan.
According to the descriptions of Marzan’s face, figure and academic background given by both the families, Pabna family’s claim might be authentic, the police official said.
Marzan was a close aide of Bangladeshi origin Canadian citizen Tamim Chowdhury, claimed Monirulm Islam, chief of the CTTC on Friday.
He was free-handed JMB commander, the police official said.
He had a close connection with the high-profiled militants and took part in several meetings to attack on Gulshan café and Sholakia, he said.
On the July 1 Gulshan attack, Marzan was staying at Kalyanpur in the capital and continued communication with the attackers and other two masterminds, the detective official said.
Marzan took the Holey Artisan attackers to the Gulshan area and later he left the spot on July 1, he added.
It is also suspected that two other suspected masterminds of the attack-Tamim and sacked army Major Syed Mohamad Ziaul Haque-are staying in Dhaka, Monirul further said.
According to police, Tamim “masterminded” the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks, while sacked army official Ziaul had a hand in the targeted killings.
Recently, police announced Tk 20 lakh bounty on each of the duo.
On July 1, a group of terrorists stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan diplomatic zone in the capital, killing 22 people, mostly foreigners.
