Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Seven militants have been sentenced to death for their involvement in 2016 Holey Artisan cafe attack that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead.
After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the verdict in the Holey Artisan Café attack case today, one of death row convicts reached into his pocket and brought out a prayer cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State.
The family of Detective Branch of Police’s Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim wants immediate execution of the verdict in the Holey Artisan café attack case.
The prosecution has expressed their satisfaction over the verdict that awarded death penalty to seven militants in Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Sharmina Parvin, one of the eyewitnesses of the Holey Artisan attack, yesterday told a tribunal in Dhaka how she saw innocent people being killed by the militants.
Shariful Islam alias Khaled, the last of the charge-sheeted accused to be arrested in the Dhaka café attack case, was a meritorious student before he got involved with banned militant outfit JMB, a top official of Rapid Acton Battalion says.
Banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was planning a Trishal-like prison van ambush to snatch the inmates accused in the Gulshan café attack case.
Neo JMB leader Nurul Islam Marzan, who was the operational commander of July 1 Gulshan café attack, and his aide are reportedly killed in a shootout with police in Mohammadpur of Dhaka.
Sacked army Major Syed Ziaul Haque and Nurul Islam Marzan, who had played vital roles in Gulshan café attack and targeted killings, will be arrested anytime, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.
The Neo JMB spent around USD 10,000 to carry out the deadly attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area that left 20 hostages and two police officials dead, police claim.
A Dhaka court asks the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit the probe report in connection with the case filed over the Gulshan café attack by January 22.
Police say they do not have any information on Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury winning Islamic State’s (IS) approval before orchestrating the Dhaka attack.
Rezaul Karim, father of Hasnat Karim who was held hostage inside Holey Artisan Bakery in the diplomatic zone for over 10 hours, dies.
Rokonuddin Khondoker, who fled with family to Syria, and Major (retd) Jahidul Islam and Tanvir Kaderi killed in Rupnagar and Azimpur raids donated to Neo JMB that carried out the Holey Artisan attack.
Canadian university student Tahmid Hasib Khan, who walked on bail after police said he had no link with the Dhaka attack of July 1, has been cleared of the charges brought against him under section 54. Former private university teacher Hasnat Karim, the only other detainee caught over the incident, stays as the key accused of the case filed over the terrorist attack.
We will never be able to feel his pain and trauma. We will never know his helpless nights in the dungeon of the jailhouse.
Police are yet to confirm about the involvement of former private university teacher Hasnat Karim with Dhaka attack case.
