Court Correspondent :A court here on Sunday granted bail to Prof Gias Uddin Ahsan, suspended Dean of the North South University’s School of Health and Life Sciences, and two others arrested for not keeping tenant information and renting out their houses to Gulshan attackers.Metropolitan Magistrate Sabbir Yeasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order after hearing bail petitions.The two others who secured bail are Gias Uddin’s nephew Alam Chowdury and Nurul Islam, a schoolteacher of Mirpur area. Meanwhile, the court also granted another petition filed by inspector Humayan Kabir of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Unit (CTTU) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) for acquitting the accused from charges under section 54.Earlier, police submitted a report under section 176 to the court which turned into a case. According to the case statement, the accused did not give any information of the tenants to police during renting the flat. If they would have given the information of the tenants to police, incident of Gulshan attack kind could not occur.Meanwhile, North South University authorities suspended its teacher Prof Gias Uddin Ahsan who was arrested on charge of hiding information of his tenants who turned out to be Gulshan café attackers.On July 16, police arrested Gias Uddin Ahsan and Alam Chowdury, Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin, manager of the building, from different parts of the capital for not keeping information of their tenants who had involvement in the Gulshan terrorist attack.On July 17, police arrested Nurul Islam, a house owner in the city’s Shewarapara area, for renting out his flat to Gulshan attackers and not keeping their information. 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-led joint forces’ operation – ‘Operation Thunderbolt’. Two policemen and six militants, of whom one later appeared to be a staff of the Bakery who may not be involved in the attack, were also killed.
