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.
One of the militants killed in Narayanganj raid might be Tausif Hassan, who according to previous information studied at Monash University Malaysia, police say.
Hasnat Karim, the lone arrestee in the Gulshan café attack case, was denied bail by a Dhaka court.
Identities of five dead Gulshan café militants and a chef have been confirmed through DNA tests, police say. The DNA test reports were collected from Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday, Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of DMP told The Daily Star.
Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of a private university who has been shown arrested in Gulshan attack case, is sent to jail on completion of his 16-day remand.
Suspended North South University Professor Gias Uddin Ahsan and two others, arrested on charges of renting flats to Gulshan café attackers and withholding tenants' information from the police, get bail.
Canadian university student Tahmid Hasib, who was arrested on suspicion of having links with the Gulshan attackers is sent to jail after completion of his 14-day remand.
Several hundred journalists form a human chain in front of Jatiya Pres Club as a part of their nationwide demonstration to protest the ongoing militant activities.
The youth, who police claimed was ‘in-charge of Gulshan café attack’ and known among his fellow militants as Marzan, has been an associate (Shathi) of Chittagong University unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami.
Marzan, one of the suspected masterminds of Gulshan café attack, is claimed to be identified as Nurul Islam by a family from Pabna district.
Police today said they have accused former university teacher Hasnat Karim in a case filed in connection with Gulshan militant attack as they have information against him.
