Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Seven militants have been sentenced to death for their involvement in 2016 Holey Artisan cafe attack that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead.
After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the verdict in the Holey Artisan Café attack case today, one of death row convicts reached into his pocket and brought out a prayer cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State.
The family of Detective Branch of Police’s Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim wants immediate execution of the verdict in the Holey Artisan café attack case.
The prosecution has expressed their satisfaction over the verdict that awarded death penalty to seven militants in Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Sharmina Parvin, one of the eyewitnesses of the Holey Artisan attack, yesterday told a tribunal in Dhaka how she saw innocent people being killed by the militants.
Shariful Islam alias Khaled, the last of the charge-sheeted accused to be arrested in the Dhaka café attack case, was a meritorious student before he got involved with banned militant outfit JMB, a top official of Rapid Acton Battalion says.
Banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was planning a Trishal-like prison van ambush to snatch the inmates accused in the Gulshan café attack case.
After the militant attack at Gulshan’s upscale café Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 last year, law enforcers started launching operations at the hideouts of suspected militants across Bangladesh. On the map, 14 such anti-militancy drives including yesterday’s raid in Kushtia were marked. Click on the each marks to see brief information on the operation.
Law enforcers are taking time in submitting charge-sheet of the case filed for Gulshan Holey Artisan café attack as they want to be flawless in their job, says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.
Some militants, who were involved in the Holey Artisan cafe attack in Dhaka last year, are yet to be arrested, Monirul Islam, chief of the DMP's Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, tells reporters.
Pulling reference to the latest claim of Islamic State existence in Bangladesh, the country’s police boss maintained the claim that there is no presence of the Islamist terrorist outfit here.
Pope Francis has met the families of nine Italian victims of Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan area last year.
Jahangir Alom alias Rajib alias Gandhi, one of the masterminds of Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan area, has been placed on an eight-day remand by a Dhaka court.
Law enforcers identified most of the local sources those had financed militant activities in the country, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia says.
The bodies of Neo JMB leaders Nurul Islam Marzan and Saddam Hossain, who were killed in yesterday’s “gunfight” with law enforcers, bear marks of multiple bullets.
Neo JMB leader Nurul Islam Marzan, who was the operational commander of July 1 Gulshan café attack, and his aide are reportedly killed in a shootout with police in Mohammadpur of Dhaka.
Sacked army Major Syed Ziaul Haque and Nurul Islam Marzan, who had played vital roles in Gulshan café attack and targeted killings, will be arrested anytime, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.
