Staff Reporter :The North South University administration on Monday suspended its acting pro-vice-chancellor who was arrested on charges of renting out a flat to Gulshan café attackers and withholding tenants’ information from the police.The NSU took the decision against Gias Uddin Ahsan, also dean of the private university’s School of Health and Life Science, Deputy Director of Public Relations of the university Belal Ahmed told The New Nation. On Saturday, Ahsan, the acting pro-vice-chancellor of the privately-run university, was arrested along his nephew and another for “sheltering the militants”.A team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Counter Terrorism Unit made the arrests at the house on Road-6 in Bloc-E of Bashundhara Residential Area, according to a Dhaka Metropolitan Police press release.On Saturday, they were shown arrested under Section 54 and produced before a Dhaka court by Humayun Kabir, an inspector of Bangladesh’s specialised anti-terrorism unit, with 10-day remand prayer.The court however placed four people, including Ahsan, on an eight-day remand each.On the first night of July, gunmen killed 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, during a 12-hour siege on a cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.One of the Gulshan attackers, Nibras Alam, was a student of North South University.After two weeks of the attack, police came to know that the North South University professor rented out one of his flats to the Gulshan attackers.
