Police produced him before Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ahsan Habib after interrogating him for eight days.
The court also fixed August 24 for the hearing of a bail petition placed by Hasnat’s counsel Shah Mohammad Shahab-Uddin after he was produced before the court.
Sub-Inspector Md Farid Mia, general recording officer of CMM court, told the Dhaka Tribune that the police have acquired several important information from Hasnat regarding the Gulshan Holey Artisan Bakery attack.
Now the information is being verified and investigated, he added.
He said that it is very crucial that Hasnat is sent to jail because if he secures a bail, that would disrupt the investigation.
But the court has fixed August 24 for bail petition hearing, he added.
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.
“If he needs to be questioned again for investigation purposes, police will seek a remand prayer,” he added.
Hasnat is the only person arrested in connection to the July 1 terrorist attack, the worst in Bangladesh’s history.
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.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
