Court again seeks probe report on Gulshan attack

A Dhaka court yesterday for the eighth time asked Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit to submit a probe report of the Gulshan café attack case, on this occasion by April 18.

The case's investigation officer, Inspector Humayun Kabir, is yet to respond.

Armed militants stormed Holey Artisan Bakery at the diplomatic zone in Dhaka's Gulshan area on July 1 last year and killed nine Italians, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, one Indian and one Bangladesh-born US citizen. Two police officers were also killed. An over-12-hour siege ensued, ending in a commando operation in which five terrorists and a café chef were killed.