Three sent to jail after 8-day remand
A Dhaka court yesterday sent three people, who were arrested for renting out a flat to suspected Gulshan café attackers in Bashundhara Residential Areas, to jail after completion of their eight-day remand each.
The arrestees are Gias Uddin Ahsan, dean of North South University's School of Health and Life Sciences and owner of the house, Alam Chowdhury, his nephew; and Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin, manager of the building.
They were also charged for withholding information about tenants to police.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yeasmin passed the order after Inspector Humayun Kabir of the Counter-Terrorism unit of the DMP, also the investigation officer of the case, produced them.
In yesterday's report, Humayun said the arrestees gave important information about their involvement in renting out a flat to the suspected Gulshan café militants which were being verified. They will be remanded again, the IO said, adding that so they needed to be confined to jail until the investigation completed.
After their arrest on July 16, they were shown arrested under section-54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The following day, they were remanded.
The same day, police also arrested the owner of the Shewrapara flat, Nurul Islam, 68, for not collecting tenants' information while renting out the flat and allegedly sheltering militants. He was remanded for eight days, but he was sent to jail after he fell sick on July 20 on remand.
Yesterday, they did not get any lawyers to defend them even though Gias Uddin Ahsan and Nurul Islam got lawyers on July 17 during the hearing of their remand prayer.
On July 1, armed militants attacked the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan's diplomatic zone and killed 20 people -- nine Italian, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, one Indian and one Bangladesh-born US citizen. Two police officers were also killed.
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