Court wants probe report by April 10

A Dhaka court yesterday once again asked the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit by April 10 the probe report of the case filed over the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Gulshan in July 2016.

The court passed the order after Humayun Kabir, a CTTC inspector and the case's investigation officer, failed to submit any probe report to it by yesterday. With this, the CTTC got extension for 16 times for filing the report.

Earlier, the CTTC unit arrested six people including five suspected militants and a former private university teacher. Of them, five “militants” gave confessional statements before magistrates on different dates.

In their statements, the militants, now behind the bars, said they were directly involved in the heinous offence, court sources said.