Police detained a professor of the North South University and two others on charge of renting house to militant suspects without verification.
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Ahsan’s nephew Alam Chowdhury and Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin, the manager of a house in Bashundhara Residential Area were also arrested.
Police allege that in May he rented a flat he owns – without registering the tenants’ information as required by law – to some of the gunmen responsible for the attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
Police suspect the cartons were used to keep the grenades used in the attack that killed 20 hostages and two police officers.
Police suspect that the militants who attacked in Gulshan Café resided in the house.
“But they did not follow the DMP instruction to collect tenants’ info while renting the flat”, Rahman said.
Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday that investigators had identified the masterminds of the attack and that the remaining perpetrators would soon be arrested. “Police have found handmade grenade, black dresses and some other equipment from in the house”, Deputy Police Commissioner Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
Last week one of the university’s former students was shot dead by police on the day of Eid festival after he and several other Islamist extremists attacked the country’s largest prayer congregation with guns and explosives killing three. Police subsequently arrested six NSU students for their suspected links to the murder.
Two of them – Mohammad Basharuzzaman from Rajshahi and Junnun Shikder from Jigatola in Dhaka – were also students of NSU. Officials said the university came under scrutiny after Islamists slaughtered blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in 2013. The university students along with the English medium are allegedly connected with extremism in Bangladesh. The attack on the eatery left 20 hostages left.
At the time of the cafe seige police said they had detained two people including a teenage kitchen assistant, who died in custody, with his family alleging torture.
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However, he declined to elaborate the matter “in the interest of investigations”.
