Two young girls gave statements as eye witnesses

Staff Reporter :
Two young girls, eye witnesses of Gulshan café killings, have given statements before the court under 164 CRPC.
Fayooz Maliha and Tahana Tasmia gave the statements being present at the chamber of Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Sikdar, reported an online Bangla news portal quoting court Sub Inspector Farid Mia on Sunday.
So far nine people have given confessional statements before the court as eye witnesses till the date.
They are: cashier of Holey Artisan Bakery Al-Amin Chowdhury Sijan, staff Miraj Hossain and Russell Masud, cooks Md Shahin, Shahriar and Tuhin, Shishir, an Indian national Sat Prakash and driver of metro-rail project consultant Based Sardar.  
“They [Fayooz Maliha and Tahana Tasmia ] both went to Holey Artisan Bakery for having iftar on the day. And they became target of armed militants,” Sub Inspector Farid Mian told the media.
They were freed after an army commando operation next morning.
A number of 22 persons, including two police officials and 17 foreigners, were killed when a gang of armed militants blasted grenades and opened fire indiscriminately inside a jam-packed restaurant in the city’s Gulshan diplomatic enclave on July 1 night.
After the incident, a case was filed with Gulshan police station where a former teacher of North South University Hasnat Rezaul Karim has been shown arrested on Saturday. Besides, a Bangladesh-origin Toronto University student Tahmid Hasib Khan in undergoing interrogation being arrested under 154 CRPC.
The case is now under investigation by Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes Unit.