gulshan cafe attack

NO MERCY for café attack perpetrators

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced seven militants to death for their involvement in the 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery attack, terming it a disgraceful attack aimed at assassinating the non-communal character of Bangladesh.
Gulshan Café Attack Investigation: Tracking new terror network

The Gulshan café attack investigation helped law enforcers get crucial leads on a new web of radicals and subsequently launch a series of successful operations ripping apart the network of militancy in Bangladesh.
Cops hopeful about highest penalty for 8 accused

Police express hope that the eight accused in Holey Artisan attack case verdict will get highest punishment as per gravity of their crimes.
Gulshan café attack: Then OC, 10 others testify

Prosecution witness Sirajul Islam, who was the officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station on July 1, 2016, gave a vivid description of the Holey Artisan cafe attack in the capital’s Gulshan before a Dhaka court yesterday.
Family, friends remember Holey Artisan attack victims

Law enforcers along with friends and family members today paid homage to the victims of the Holey Artisan attack by laying floral wreaths on the then Holey Artisan bakery premises marking the third anniversary of the brutal attack.
JMB 'plan for prison van attack' foiled

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.
Dhaka attack: Hasnat denied bail despite being dropped from charge sheet

A Dhaka court rejects a bail petition of former private university teacher Hasnat Reza Karim in Holey Artisan Cafe’ attack case, even though his name was dropped from the charge sheet submitted on July 23.
Dhaka attack: Cops charge 8; Hasnat dropped

Police press charges against eight militants over the Holey Artisan café attack, where 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed off as hostages two years ago. Meanwhile, Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of North South University, has been dropped from the charge sheet as “investigation could not relate him with the militant activity”.
Gulshan café attack ‘arms supplier’ gives confessional statement

“Neo JMB” member Hadisur Rahman Sagor, who was arrested allegedly for supplying arms in Holey Artisan Bakery attack in 2016, gives his confessional statement before a magistrate.
Law enforces now can resist any militant attack: Minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says the government has equipped law enforcers with all modern facilities to prevent any type of terrorist and militant attack like the Gulshan cafe one.
2 'Neo JMB' leaders held

Police yesterday claimed to have arrested a key financier of a militant group and an arms supplier for Gulshan café attack in 2016.
‘Gulshan café attack charge sheet by this month’

The charge sheet in Gulshan café attack case will be submitted by this month, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit Chief Monirul Islam says.
Café attackers had grenade training in the Buriganga

A couple of weeks before the Gulshan café siege on July 1 last year, two of the five attackers received training in throwing grenades in the middle of the Buriganga.
Gulshan café attack: Rashed placed on 6-day remand

A Dhaka court places Aslam Hossain Rashed alias Rash, a key “Neo JMB” militant who is one of the planners of last year's Gulshan café attack, on six-day remand.
Another café attack planner arrested: cops

A key “Neo JMB” militant, who is one of the planners of last year's Gulshan café attack, was arrested in Natore early yesterday, police say.
Dhaka attack bomb supplier remanded

A Dhaka court places Sohel Mahfuz, supplier of bombs in the Gulshan café attack, on a fresh three-day remand in connection to Kalyanpur raid.
Gulshan Café Attack: Sohel ‘admits’ he supplied bombs

Sohel Mahfuz, a key “Neo JMB” leader, yesterday confessed before a magistrate that he had supplied all the bombs used in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in the capital's Gulshan on July 1 last year, court sources said.
Gulshan café attack: ‘Bomb supplier’ Mahfuz on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court places Sohel Mahfuz, known as an explosives expert and the bomb supplier for last year's Gulshan café attack, on a seven-day remand in connection with the café attack case.
Gulshan café attack victims’ family to get Tk 13.95 lakh each

Each family of 20 foreign and Bangladeshi nationals, who were killed in the Holey Artisan cafe attack in Gulshan on July 1 last year, will get Tk 13.95 lakh as compensation.
Militancy weakened, not uprooted yet: IGP

Militancy could not be uprooted yet, but it has been weakened, Inspector General of Police Shahidul Huq says.
BNP seeks coordinated initiative to eliminate militancy

Observing that the Gulshan Café terror attack put a stigma on the nation's long tradition of communal harmony and pragmatism, BNP today called for taking a coordinated initiative to stamp out militancy.
Of haunting memories

The word "excruciating" can hardly describe the pain Simeen Hossain has been in since she lost her son in the Gulshan cafe attack.
Hiding info: Dhaka attack survivor Tahmid cleared of charge

Tahmid Hasib Khan, one of the survivors of the terrorist attack in Gulshan Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 last year, is acquitted of charge filed against him for not giving information to police about the case.
Police boss refutes IS existence

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.
'Spiritual leader' of 'Neo JMB' arrested

Counterterrorism officials have arrested the alleged spiritual leader of “Neo JMB”, who they think approved the Gulshan café attack plot last year.
No negative message from foreign businessmen, companies: Tofail

The recent killing incidents of foreigners will not have any bad impacts on business in Bangladesh as the foreign businessmen have no plan to leave the country, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed says.
Dhaka raid: Cops identify 7 militants

Police disclose the identities of seven among the nine militants who were killed in an anti-terror raid in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area yesterday.
Dhaka militants changed dress after Fazr prayers when they saw end coming

The militants who were killed in gunfight with the law enforcers early morning Tuesday change their dress after the Fazr prayers and wore black punjabis, says a neighbour who observed the militants time to time from around midnight till dawn from an adjacent building.
Dhaka raid militant Rouf missing ‘NSU student’

One of the militants killed in gun battle during Dhaka raid in Kalyanpur has been identified as a "missing student of privately-run North-South University". However, confusion has arisen over identity of another militant as two families are claiming the same body.
NSU professor, 2 others arrested

Police arrest three persons including a professor of North South University on charges of renting out a flat to Gulshan café attackers without keeping their personal information.