Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday placed four persons, including acting Pro-Vice Chancellor of North South University, Gias Uddin Ahsan, arrested for not keeping tenant information and renting house to Gulshan attackers, on eight-day remand each.
Magistrate Mohammad Tasruzzaman passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Humayun Kabir produced them in the court seeking 10-day remand for each of them.
Three other accused are Alam Chowdhury, nephew of Gias Uddin Ahsan, Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin, Manager of the building, and Nurul Islam, a teacher of a school in Mirpur area of the city.
Besides, police on Sunday arrested Nurul Islam, a house owner in the city’s Sewrapara area for renting out his flat to Gulshan attackers and not keeping their information. They also seized a hand grenade, black uniform used by the terrorists and some other materials from the house.
Police also seized some cartons containing sand and some clothes of the militants. All of them were shown arrested Under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
On July 1, gunmen stormed the cafe and took guests and employees hostage. Twenty bodies, including nine of Italians and seven Japanese nationals, were recovered from the crime spot the following day.
The crisis ended following an army operation known as ‘Operation Thunderbolt’. Two policemen and six militants, of whom one was later seemed to be a staff of the Bakery and might not have been involved in the attack, were also killed in the incident.
