Holey Artisan attack: Court seeks probe report on June 25
A special tribunal in Dhaka on August 8, 2018 accepts the charge sheet against eight militants in a case filed over the 2016 militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale restaurant in Gulshan. Photo: Collected/ File photo
A Dhaka court today asked the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit by June 25 the probe report in a case filed over the attack in Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan in July 2016.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmin gave the order after CTTC Inspector Humayun Kabir, also the investigation officer of the case, failed to submit the probe report to it by yesterday.
Earlier, the CTTC unit arrested seven people including six suspected militants and a former private university teacher. Of them, six “militants” gave confessional statements before magistrates on different dates.
In their statements, the suspected militants, now behind the bars, said they were directly involved in the heinous offence, court sources said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital's Gulshan diplomatic zone on July 1, 2016, and killed 20 hostages, mostly foreign nationals. Two police officials were also killed during the 12-hour hostage standoff.
Later, a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act was filed with Gulshan Police Station.
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