UNB, Dhaka :
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Sunday filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the validity of the detention of Tanvir Rahman in the Sagar-Runi murder case, and also sought bail for him.
Responding to an application submitted by Mahbubur Rahman, the detainee’s father, the NHRC filed the writ petition as it claims that Scholastica school deputy manager Tanvir, also a friend of the slain journalist couple, has been illegally detained since
October 2012 as a killer suspect. Sagar Sarwar, news editor at private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter at another TV channel, ATN Bangla, were killed in the small hours on February 11, 2012 at their rented apartment in the capital’s West Rajabazar. A case was later filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station over the gory incident.
The admissibility hearing on the writ petition was held on (Sunday) in part.
After the brief hearing, the bench put off the hearing with an interim order asking the NHRC to seek bail before the appropriate criminal bench of the HC against the lower court order that turned down Tanvir’s bail on June 26. Emerging from the court, advocate Fawzia Karim, the counsel for Tanvir, told reporters that the NHRC moved the writ petition as there was no specific allegation against Tanvir in connection with the journalist couple murder case.
Even his name was not mentioned in the First Information Report (FIR) and so far no information was available after interrogating him in custody, she said, adding that such state of affairs Tanvir deserves bail as no innocent person can be detained for long in the name of investigation sans trial.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Sunday filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the validity of the detention of Tanvir Rahman in the Sagar-Runi murder case, and also sought bail for him.
Responding to an application submitted by Mahbubur Rahman, the detainee’s father, the NHRC filed the writ petition as it claims that Scholastica school deputy manager Tanvir, also a friend of the slain journalist couple, has been illegally detained since
October 2012 as a killer suspect. Sagar Sarwar, news editor at private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter at another TV channel, ATN Bangla, were killed in the small hours on February 11, 2012 at their rented apartment in the capital’s West Rajabazar. A case was later filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station over the gory incident.
The admissibility hearing on the writ petition was held on (Sunday) in part.
After the brief hearing, the bench put off the hearing with an interim order asking the NHRC to seek bail before the appropriate criminal bench of the HC against the lower court order that turned down Tanvir’s bail on June 26. Emerging from the court, advocate Fawzia Karim, the counsel for Tanvir, told reporters that the NHRC moved the writ petition as there was no specific allegation against Tanvir in connection with the journalist couple murder case.
Even his name was not mentioned in the First Information Report (FIR) and so far no information was available after interrogating him in custody, she said, adding that such state of affairs Tanvir deserves bail as no innocent person can be detained for long in the name of investigation sans trial.
