Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Monday fixed for hearing soon a rule issued 10 years ago over the government’s move to identify the motive behind the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
The HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Ahmed Sohel ordered the officials concerned to include the matter in its hearing list following a prayer moved by writ petitioner’s lawyer Manzill Murshid for fixing a date to hear the long pending rule.
The rule will be in the hearing list of the court since Monday and it may be heard any day as per serial of the cause-list, said the lawyer.
Following the writ petition filed by rights organization, Human Rights
and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), the HC on February 28, 2012 issued the rule asking the government to explain within two weeks as to why it should not be directed to identify the motive behind the murders of Sagar and Runi and to bring the killers to justice..
The authorities concerned of the government are yet to reply to the HC rule, said Advocate Manzill Murshid.
Sagar, News Editor of private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Runi, a Senior Reporter of another TV channel, ATN Bangla, were killed in the wee hours of February 11, 2012 at West Rajabazar.
Their four-year-old son Mahir Sarowar Megh was present in the apartment at the time of the murder.
Runi’s brother Nousher Alam lodged the murder case with the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. The investigation was handed over to Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police later and then to the RAB.
The submission of the probe report of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi’s murder case got deferred for the 87th time recently.
RAB were supposed to submit the probe report to Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court but once again they failed. The court has announced April 26 as the next date to submit the report.
