A Dhaka court has ordered Gulshan terror attack suspect Hasnat Reza Karim into jail.
Police produced him before Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ahsan Habib on Monday after interrogating him for eight days.
Hearing on the suspect's bail petition will take place on August 24.
After investigators interrogated him for 16 days in two stints, they did not apply for extension of Hasnat's custody for further questioning.
“We are trying to verify the information we got from him,” Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DMP, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Hasnat is the only person arrested in connection to the July 1 terrorist attack, the worst in Bangladesh's history.
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Terrorists killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, and two police officers when they attacked an upmarket restaurant at the heart of Dhaka's diplomatic zone. The 11-hour standoff ended with a commando operation the next morning.
Hasnat, a former North South University teacher holding UK citizenship, was formally arrested on August 3.
Police detained another suspect, University of Toronto student Tahmid Hasib Khan, on the same day. Both men are survivors of the terror attack.
Tahmid has not been shown arrested for the attack. A court on Saturday ordered him to jail.