Staff Reporter :
The investigators are yet to nab the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi even after the 43,800 hours of the gruesome murder.
The then Home Minister Shahara Khatun, within hours of the incident in 2012, had promised to
catch the culprits within 48 hours. Today (Saturday) is the 5th death anniversary of the journalist couple. Journalist organistions, including Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), will hold protest rallies today demanding justice.
Meanwhile, Journalists’ leaders have expressed their disappointment over the slow progress of investigation of the double murder and urged the law enforcers to stop staging ‘drama’ in the name of investigation.
DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badsha told The New Nation on Friday that although five years have elapsed into the gruesome killing, the investigators are still in dark to identify the killers. It is unacceptable.
“We have been demanding the arrest of the killers and their capital punishment since 2012. We also have submitted memorandums to the Prime Minister and Home Minister for justice. But the case is yet to make any headway much to our frustration,” he said.
DUJ (one faction) General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury said, “We are crying for justice since the murder of the journalist couple. But justice has been denied due to reason unknown. Such a situation has led to increasing torture and killing of journalists across the country.”
“It is our constitutional rights to get justice. The state machineries must uphold the constitutional rights as well as ensure safety and security of the journalists,” he said.
DUJ (another faction) General Secretary Jahangir Alam Prodhan said the then home minister assured the journalists to nab the killers within 48 hours, but after five years the killers are still at large. “We don’t know how many hours we have to wait for justice. We don’t know when the killers will be arrested. It is the duty of the state to bring the culprits to book and ensure justice,” he said.
He called upon the journalist community to forge unity and go for tougher movement until the killers of Sagar-Runi are nabbed.
The journalists’ leaders also slammed the home minister’s recent comment on the progress of the murder case saying that we cannot expect such and irresponsible comment from him.
The incumbent home minister told the media recently that he was not aware of the progress of the sensational killing case.
On February 11, 2012, Maasranga Television News Editor Sagar Sarowar and ATN Bangla Senior Reporter Meherun Runi were stabbed to death in the bedroom of their apartment in Dhaka’s Razabazar.
Sagar- Runi’s only son Mihir Sarowar Megh is a student of grade four at a school in Gulshan now.
After the sensational murder Runi’s brother filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police.
Following the murder, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police started the investigation. Later, the case was shifted to the DB police. However, on April 18, 2012, the High Court in an order transferred the case to RAB for investigation as the former had expressed its inability to resolve the case.
But RAB investigators are yet to produce the probe report into the murder case.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court on February 8 this year directed the RAB to inform by March 21 about the progress of the probe report in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar-Runi.
The investigators are yet to nab the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi even after the 43,800 hours of the gruesome murder.
The then Home Minister Shahara Khatun, within hours of the incident in 2012, had promised to
catch the culprits within 48 hours. Today (Saturday) is the 5th death anniversary of the journalist couple. Journalist organistions, including Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), will hold protest rallies today demanding justice.
Meanwhile, Journalists’ leaders have expressed their disappointment over the slow progress of investigation of the double murder and urged the law enforcers to stop staging ‘drama’ in the name of investigation.
DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badsha told The New Nation on Friday that although five years have elapsed into the gruesome killing, the investigators are still in dark to identify the killers. It is unacceptable.
“We have been demanding the arrest of the killers and their capital punishment since 2012. We also have submitted memorandums to the Prime Minister and Home Minister for justice. But the case is yet to make any headway much to our frustration,” he said.
DUJ (one faction) General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury said, “We are crying for justice since the murder of the journalist couple. But justice has been denied due to reason unknown. Such a situation has led to increasing torture and killing of journalists across the country.”
“It is our constitutional rights to get justice. The state machineries must uphold the constitutional rights as well as ensure safety and security of the journalists,” he said.
DUJ (another faction) General Secretary Jahangir Alam Prodhan said the then home minister assured the journalists to nab the killers within 48 hours, but after five years the killers are still at large. “We don’t know how many hours we have to wait for justice. We don’t know when the killers will be arrested. It is the duty of the state to bring the culprits to book and ensure justice,” he said.
He called upon the journalist community to forge unity and go for tougher movement until the killers of Sagar-Runi are nabbed.
The journalists’ leaders also slammed the home minister’s recent comment on the progress of the murder case saying that we cannot expect such and irresponsible comment from him.
The incumbent home minister told the media recently that he was not aware of the progress of the sensational killing case.
On February 11, 2012, Maasranga Television News Editor Sagar Sarowar and ATN Bangla Senior Reporter Meherun Runi were stabbed to death in the bedroom of their apartment in Dhaka’s Razabazar.
Sagar- Runi’s only son Mihir Sarowar Megh is a student of grade four at a school in Gulshan now.
After the sensational murder Runi’s brother filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police.
Following the murder, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police started the investigation. Later, the case was shifted to the DB police. However, on April 18, 2012, the High Court in an order transferred the case to RAB for investigation as the former had expressed its inability to resolve the case.
But RAB investigators are yet to produce the probe report into the murder case.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court on February 8 this year directed the RAB to inform by March 21 about the progress of the probe report in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar-Runi.
