Four policemen who rushed to the scene with their colleagues as militants lay seize to upscale Holey Artisan Cafe in capital’s Gulshan area on July 1, 2016, testified before an anti-terror special court in the case lodged under the anti-terror act over that incident on May 20, reports BSS.

They are former inspector (investigation) Wahiduzzaman, sub-inspector of Bhatara Police Station Faruk Hossain, assistant sub-inspector Sohagh Hossain and constable Pradip Chandra Das.

Of the four, Wahiduzzaman and Faruk got seriously injured in the grenade blasted by the militants.

They submitted their depositions before Judge Md Mujibur Rahman of Dhaka Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal and were cross examined. The court set May 27 as the next date of hearing.

A total of 40 witnesses out of total 211 have so far testified in the case.

Militants killed 20 innocent people, most of them were foreigners, in the grisly attack in 2016.

Police filed the case under the anti-terror act with Gulshan Police Station. The trial initiated on November 26, 2018 by framing charges against eight accused.