The investigations into the 2016 terror attack on cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone are at its ‘final stages’ and the charges will be pressed by “a week or 10 days”, says the Dhaka Metropolitan Police chief.

“The investigation is nearly complete and the charge sheet will be filed in the court within 7 to 10 days,” Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia told the media on Thursday.
In 2016, Bangladesh was rocked by an unprecedented attack on a cafe in capital Dhaka’s upscale neighbourhood.
On the night of Jul 1, five terrorists shouting 'Allahu Akbar' stormed into the Holey Artisan Bakery and O' Kitchen restaurant, an eatery popular among foreigners in the diplomatic area of Gulshan.
The attackers killed 20 diners, including 17 foreigners, and two police officers, who were caught in grenade blasts.
The five attackers and a restaurant staff member were shot dead when army commandos raided the restaurant the next morning. Another staffer of the eatery later died in the hospital.
Eight suspects involved in planning the attack have died in several anti-terror raids since. Seven suspects are in police custody.
Police have maintained from the very beginning that the neo-JMB, a splinter group of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, was behind the attack.
The Dhaka metro police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit is in charge of the investigation.
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