Aug : A court Monday sent ex-North South University teacher Abul Hasnat Rezaul Karim to jail on completion of his 8-day remand in a case filed over Gulshan terror attack.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ahsan Habib passed the order after inspector Humayun Kabir of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced Hasnat before the court after his remand completed.The court also fixed 24 August for hearing on the bail petition filed by Hasnat’s lawyerShah M Shahabuddin.On 13 August, a Dhaka court placed Hasnat Karim on an eight-day fresh remand after showing him arrested in the Gulshan terror attack case.Another Dhaka court on 4 August placed Hasnat Karim on an eight-day remand.On 3 August, a CTTC team arrested Hasnat and Toronto University student Tahmid Hasib Khan, who is now in jail following his remand twice, from the city's Gulshan and Bashundhara areas respectively for their suspected link to the attack.
Abul Hasnat, a businessman, and Tahmid Hasib, a Bangladeshi origin Canadian, were rescued along with 11 others during a commando operation at the Holey Artisan Bakery at the city's diplomatic zone Gulshan on 2 July following a 12-hour hostage standoff.
Their family members claimed that they had remained traceless since then. However, law enforcement agencies said 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 the commando operation in the café.
