NSU suspends arrested professor

Authorities of North South University have suspended a professor who was arrested on charges of renting out a flat to Gulshan café attackers and withholding tenants' information from the police.

The NSU authorities today took the action against Gias Uddin Ahsan, dean of the private university's School of Health and Life Science, Vice-Chancellor Prof Atiqul Islam told The Daily Star.  

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On Saturday, Ahsan, the acting pro-vice chancellor of the privately-run university, his nephew and one other were arrested for “sheltering militants”.

A team of the DMP counterterrorism unit made the arrests at the house on Road-6 in Block-E of Bashundhara Residential Area, according to a Dhaka Metropolitan Police press release.

Yesterday, they were shown arrested under Section 54 and produced before a Dhaka court by Humayun Kabir, an inspector of Bangladesh’s specialised anti-terrorism unit, with 10-day remand prayer.

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The court however placed four people, including Ahsan, on an eight-day remand each.

On the first night of July, gunmen killed 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, during a 12-hour siege on a restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone. Islamic State reportedly claimed responsibility of the killing.

After two weeks of the attack, police came to know that the North South University professor rented out one of his flats to the Dhaka attackers.

One of the Dhaka attackers, Nibras Alam, was a student of North South University.