A terror suspect, who allegedly supplied the weapons used in the 2016 Dhaka cafe attack, has been arrested, say police.
Hadisur Rahman Sagar was detained early Thursday from the northern district of Bogra along with Akram Hossain Niloy, reports bdnews24.com.
Investigators said Niloy financed the 2017 terror attack plan in Dhaka, which was foiled through the raid on a hotel at the capital’s Panthapath, where a suspected militant blew himself up.
The suspects belong to neo-JMB, a splinter of banned Islamist group Jamaa'tul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
Bangladesh was rocked by an unprecedented attack on an upscale cafe in Dhaka’s Gulshan on the night of Jul 1, 2016.
Twenty-two people, including 17 foreigners and two police officers, were butchered in cold blood during the attack carried out by five gunmen.
The attackers who shouted 'Allahu Akbar', and took religious tests to seek out foreigners were shot dead by commandos the next morning.
Investigators have maintained from the very beginning that the neo-JMB was behind the attack.
The manhunt for Sagar that put a brake on the investigation ended with Thursday’s raid in Bogra’s Shibganj Upazila.
The raid at the Upazila’s Kichack was conducted on a tip-off, said Bogra police’s Additional Superintendent Arifur Rahman Mandal.
Describing Sagar and Niloy as ‘high-profile’ terrorists, he told the media that they sent them to Dhaka after informing the police’s counterterrorism unit.
They were taken to a Dhaka court on Thursday, when the police were given seven days to interrogate them in custody, Inspector Humayun Kabir of the CTTC told bdnews24.com.
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