'Hasnat named in case based on info against him'

He made the statement while replying to a query of journalists in a press conference at DMP Media Centre on Sunday afternoon. The joint commissioner said: “We arrest people under section 54 to interrogate, and name them in the case only after we find information that links him to the incident. “We filed the case against Hasnat only after we got some information.” He has become the first person to be shown arrested in the case of Holey Artisan terror attack. Hasnat a Bangladeshi civil engineer with British nationality, was placed on eight day fresh remand by Metropolitan Magistrate Emdadul Haque on Saturday. The former North South University teacher was arrested along with Toronto University student Tahmid Hasib Khan by police on August 3 night under section 54. Tahmid is also a survivor of the attack. The two were interrogated eight days starting August 4.