Faculty Member of North South University and Canadian student Tahmid Hasib was placed on 8-day rea on Thursday.
Earlier, they were shown under arrest in connection with the Gulshan Attack.
The arrest has been made under Section 54.
Humayun Kabir, an inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, produced them before court and sought them in 10-day remand prayer for interrogation in custody.
The remand application stated that Hasnat Karim is a member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir and Tahmid is his accomplish.
Tahmid has helped Hasnat in different times.
The court rejected their bail plea and put them on 8-day remand.
Gunmen, allegedly of the Islamic State, killed 20 hostages – mostly foreign nationals – and two policemen during a 12-hour-long siege at Holey Artisan, a cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.
Last the authorities spoke about them, Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque had told the media on Tuesday both were “under surveillance” of the law enforcers.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner ( Media ) Md. Massudur Rahman that Hasnat and Tahmid were arrested on Wednesday night from Dhaka’s Gulshan and Baridhara area.
On Thursday, they were shown arrested under section 54 and sent to Dhaka CMM Court.
Whereabouts of the duo, who came out of Holey Artisan alive, were unclear since they were picked up by law enforcers in the aftermath of the café attack.
An amateur video shot of the cafe during the siege brought Hasanat to the centre of speculation on the social media with many asserting that he was linked with the attackers.
North South University had reportedly removed him over links with the extremist group Hizb-ut Tahrir.
Nibras Islam, one of the young Islamist gunmen shot dead by the commandos, had studied at the private university.
Tahmid Hasib Khan, a student at the University of Toronto, is a permanent resident of Canada.
Son of businessman Shahriar Khan, his family said he arrived in Dhaka the day before the attack and was in the upscale cafe to have Iftar with his friends.
The case initiated over the terror attack mentions both Hasanat and Tahmid among the 32 persons rescued from the restaurant.
On the night of 1 July 2016, at 9:20 PM, five militants took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan Thana—an affluent area with many embassies in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The assailants entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages (foreigners and locals). In the immediate response, while Dhaka Metropolitan Police tried to regain control of the bakery, two police officers were shot dead by the assailants.
29 people were killed, including 20 hostages (18 foreigners and 2 locals), 2 police officers, 5 gunmen, a chef of the bakery and later at hospital, an assistant of a chef. As the police were unsuccessful in breaching the bakery and securing the hostages, they set up a perimeter along with the Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guards Bangladesh. Very early on 2 July (around 03:00), it was decided that the Bangladesh Armed Forces would launch a counter assault named Operation Thunderbolt. The assault was led by the 1st Para-commando Battalion, an elite force in the Bangladesh Army, and began their raid at 07:40. According to Bangladesh’s Inspector General of Police, all six of the attackers were Bangladeshi citizens. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident and released photographs of the gunmen, but the home minister of Bangladesh, Asaduzzaman Khan, stated that the perpetrators belonged to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and were not affiliated with ISIL.
The incident was the worst terrorist attack in Bangladesh’s history.
Source: Ittefaq
