Gulshan attack: Hasnat, Tahmid on fresh remand

A Dhaka court has granted a fresh remand for ex-private university teacher Hasnat Karim and Canadian university student Tahmid Hasib Khan for their alleged involvement with the Gulshan restaurant attack.

Former North South University teacher Hasnat Karim has been shown arrested in the case filed in connection with the Gulshan café attack.

Metropolitan Magistrate in Dhaka Imdadul Haque today placed Hasnat on an eight-day fresh remand after showing him arrested in the case.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Golam Nabi granted a six-day fresh remand for Canadian university student Tahmid Hasib.

Earlier on August 4, Hasnat and Tahmid were arrested under Section 54 on suspicion of having links with the Gulshan attackers.

Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of North South University and UK citizen, and Tahmid Hasib, a student of a university in Toronto, were witness to the bloody carnage inside the restaurant.

Twenty hostages -- nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladeshi American and two Bangladeshis -- were killed in the terror attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan on July 1.


Besides, two senior police officers -- Banani Police Station officer-in-charge Salauddin Ahmed Khan and Detective Branch assistant commissioner Robiul Islam -- were killed when they tried to rescue the hostages.