Dhaka Bakery Attack Mastermind Is Hiding in India: Report

The suspected mastermind reportedly entered India seven months before the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka.

Bangladeshi soldiers during the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on 2 July 2016. (Photo: AP)

A key aide to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stated that Bangladesh is willing to share a dossier of ‘missing youths’ with India to jointly fight cross-border terror, according to Gawhar Rizvi, a senior foreign affairs advisor to Hasina.

The comments follow a report which claimed that a key plotter in the 1 July Dhaka café carnage slipped into West Bengal seven months before the attack, the Dhaka Tribune had reported.

Investigators dealing with the dreadful Gulshan terror attack claimed to have identified the mastermind, saying he fled the country at least seven months ago after finalising the operation plan and is now hiding in West Bengal of India.

<i> Dhaka Tribune</i> Report

Investigators have been on the lookout for a key Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh operative, Md Suleiman.

His name cropped up while questioning an ISIS operative Abu Al-Musa Al Bangali alias Musa, arrested by the state CID from Burdwan 10 days ago. Suleiman was Musa’s handler for the past two years, The Times of India report claims.

Police in India have said that Musa met Suleiman in Malda, India multiple times. Between 2014-15, they had met six times, the report claims.

(With inputs from Dhaka Tribune, The Times of India)

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