Dhaka- The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday placed Gulshan cafe attack’s arms supplier Boro Mizan on a three-day remand to quiz him about the sensational incident.Magistrate Debabrata Biswas of the court passed the order. Earlier, on February 28, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested Mizan from the capital’s Banani area.
On July 1, last year, seven militants stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery and took around 40 people, including restaurant’s staff and guests- locals and foreigners, hostage. Twenty hostages, including nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladesh-born American and two Bangladeshis, were killed in the heinous attack on the restaurant before the commando operation ended successfully.
Two senior police officers- Banani Police Station Officer-in-Charge Salauddin Ahmed Khan and Detective Branch Assistant Commissioner Robiul Islam, were killed, while they trying to rescue the hostages.
Mizan allegedly supplied firearms and ammunitions to the militants who attacked the cafe. – Special Correspondent
