Two years later, Bangladeshi police charge 8 coffee attacks in Dhaka

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police filed lawsuits against eight activists following the attack on Dhaka's cafe in 2016 that killed 20 people, including an Indian woman, the worst terrorist attack in the country's history .

The verdict was filed in a court of Dhaka this morning, more than two years after the horrific attack on the Gulshan Bakery's Holey Bakery (cafe) in the classy diplomatic zone of Dhaka, claimed by the Islamic State terrorist group.

The delay in filing the charge sheet was attributed to "complexities in obtaining information" as those "directly involved in the operation were killed on the spot ", said The Daily Daily. Monirul Islam as saying.

Police, however, claimed that the local terrorist group Neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB), which is close to the Islamic State, was behind the attack.

Monirul said the police had filed a lawsuit against eight militants following the attack, where 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed after being taken hostage.

He added that the six militants who directly led the attack were killed at the scene during the ensuing military aggression, while 13 other people involved were later killed in different measures of repression.

Professor Hasnat Karim, a former professor at North South University, was dropped from the list of charges because "an investigation could not link him to militant activity," he says.

The charges against the accused are based on 75 pieces of evidence and 211 witnesses to the incident.

Those who are charged are: "Neo-Jama" atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, "Rakibul Islam Regan, Hadisur Rahman Sagor, Jahangir Hossain Rajeeb aka Rajeeb Gandhi, Aslam Hossain Rashed aka Rash, Abdus Sabur Khan aka Sohel Mahfuj, Mizanur Rahman aka Baro Mizan, and Mamunur Rashid aka Ripon and Shariful Islam Khaled, a former student of the Department of English at Rajshahi University.

Among them, the first six members of the "Neo-JMB" are now in prison while the other two are on the run.

Court officials, meanwhile, said that a metropolitan magistrate registered the charge sheet, but the case was to be transferred later this week to the Special Anti-Terrorist Court for its rapid elimination.

Twenty people, mostly foreigners, were killed in the brutal night attack on July 1, after the attackers took hostages of diners and restaurant staff.

The Indian, Tarishi Jain, was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She was in Dhaka for a vacation.

The next morning, a joint commando stormed the bakery, killing all assailants and rescuing the captives, ending the siege of terror by almost 11 hours. PTI AR CPS AKJ CPS

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