Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Sunday granted police permission to interrogate five people, including Kalyanpur building owner’s wife and son, as they were accused of intervening in police duty and harbouring militants at their house.

The five persons are: Mamtaz Parveen, wife of Taj Manzil’s owner Atahar Uddin Ahmed, their son Mazharul Islam, Mahafuzul Ansar, Momin Uddin and Zakir Hossain. They will be quizzed for two days each, according to a UNB report.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Khurshid Alam passed the order following a police petition seeking to interrogate the accused persons.

A total of nine suspected militants were killed in an operation codenamed ‘Storm 26’ carried out in the 6-storey building, locally known as Jahaz Bari in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area on July 26.

Police held Mamtaz and her son Mazharul Islam on July 26 while three other people were detained in different times.

The owner of the building Atahar Uddin Ahmed lives abroad.

On August 1, sub-inspector of Mirpur Model Police M Bazlar Rahman brought charges against the five people.