Charge sheet in Gulshan attack case this month

Staff Correspondent: Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit's chief Monirul Islam said the charge sheet in the case of Holey Artisan Bakery of the capital's Gulshan will be submitted this month.

He came up with the disclosure in a press briefing at the media centre of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Sunday.

"Several accused of the case have been arrested, several others killed in different raids in different times and others remain fugitive," he said.

"We are trying to arrest the fugitives," he said adding that the law enforcers will submit the charge sheet by this month though they could not arrest the fugitives.

"During the case investigation, we didn’t find any involvement of global terror outfit Islamic State," Monirul claimed.

On July 1 last year, gunmen attacked Holey Artisan Bakery only to draw attention of the IS militant group so that the terror outfit recognised the attackers as its members, he said.

The other motives of the attackers we found during the investigation were to embarrass and oust the present government, he added.
 

risingbd/Dhaka/December 3, 2017/Maksud/A K Azad