Dhaka: North South University authorities have suspended its teacher Prof Gias Uddin Ahsan who was arrested on charge of hiding information of his tenants who turned out to be Gulshan café attackers.

The action was taken against Gias Uddin, Dean of the NSU School of Health and Life Sciences, as police arrested him under section 54 on charge of renting out his house to militant suspects without verification, NSU deputy director (PR) Belal Ahmed told UNB on Monday.

Police on Saturday arrested three people—Prof Gias Uddin Ahsan, his nephew Alam Chowdhury and manager of the building Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin—from different parts of the capital for not keeping the information of their tenants who had involvement in the Gulshan terrorist attack.

Police also seized cartons containing sand and some clothes of the militants from the house in question.

On July 1, gunmen stormed the cafe and took guests and employees hostage. Twenty bodies, including nine of Italians and seven Japanese nationals, were recovered from the crime scene the following day.

The crisis ended following an army-led joint forces’ operation - ‘Operation Thunderbolt’. Two policemen and six militants, of whom one later appeared to be a staff of the Bakery who may not be involved in the attack, were also killed.