DHAKA, June 25, 2019 (BSS) – Five more Policemen today testified before
an anti-terror special court here in a case lodged over 2016 terrorist attack
on an upscale cafe in capital’s Gulshan area.
The witnesses are Superintendants of police (SPs) Abdul Ahad, Jasim
Uddin, assistant deputy commissioner Obaidul Huq, Inspector Mahabub Alam and
sub-inspector Billal Bhuiyan.
They submitted their depositions before Judge Md Mujibur Rahman of Dhaka
Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal and were cross examined hereafter. The court
after that set July 2 as the next date of hearing.
A total of 60 witnesses out of total 211 have so far testified in the
case.
Militants killed 20 innocent people, most of them foreigners, in the
grisly attack at the cafe on July 1, 2016. Two police officials valiantly
laid down their lives while trying to save people there. Later, five
militants were killed in a commando operation.
Police filed the case under the anti-terror act with Gulshan Police
Station.
The trial initiated on November 26, 2018 by framing charges against the
eight accused-Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, Rakibul Hasan Regan, Rashedul
Islam alias Rash, Sohel Mahfuz, Mizanur Rahman alias Boro Mizan, Hadisur
Rahman Sagar, Shariful Islam and Mamunur Rashid.