Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Thursday placed suspected militant Salauddin Kamran, a close associate of Gulshan attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury, on a 6-day police custody for interrogation in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahmudul Hasan passed the order when sub-inspector Md Jahangir Alam of CTTC (counter terrorism and transactional crime) unit and also investigation officer of the case produced him before the court seeking a 10-day police custody for interrogation.

Law enforcers arrested Kamran from Tongi station of Gazipur city on Wednesday night. Later he was shown arrested in a case filed in connection with an operation at a militant den in the capital’s Kalyanpur.

The operation called ‘Storm 26’ was carried out in a 6-storey building, locally known as Jahaz Bari, in Kalyanpur area on July 26.

A total of nine suspected militants were killed during the drive.