Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court on Monday again deferred the date of submitting probe report of journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case.
The court asked the investigation officer (IO) of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to submit the report on February 10, 2020.
Metropolitan Magistrate Debobrata Biswas passed the order as the investigation officer, Md Shafiqul Islam, failed to submit any report yesterday, the scheduled day for it.
The court has deferred the date for submitting the probe report for the 70
times, sources said. Earlier, different courts expressed their dissatisfaction over the investigation and agency’s failure to unearth the real clue of the murder and to arrest the culprits.
Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, senior reporter of another channel ATN Bangla, had been killed at their rented flat in the capital’s West Rajabazar on February 11 in 2012.
Their only son Mahir Sarowar Megh, then 5, was present at the house at that time.
Following the murder, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police had started an investigation into the case filed in this connection. Later, the case was shifted to DB police. However, on April 18, 2012, the High Court, in an order, shifted the case to RAB for investigation as the former had expressed his inability to resolve the case. At least eight people including Rafiqul Islam, Bakul Miah, Masum Mintu, Kamrul Hasan alias Arun, Abu Sayeed, two security guards of the couple’s house Palash Rudra Paul and Enamul Hoque and the couple’s “family friend” Tanveer Rahman had been arrested, but Tanveer got later freed on bail.
A Dhaka court on Monday again deferred the date of submitting probe report of journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case.
The court asked the investigation officer (IO) of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to submit the report on February 10, 2020.
Metropolitan Magistrate Debobrata Biswas passed the order as the investigation officer, Md Shafiqul Islam, failed to submit any report yesterday, the scheduled day for it.
The court has deferred the date for submitting the probe report for the 70
times, sources said. Earlier, different courts expressed their dissatisfaction over the investigation and agency’s failure to unearth the real clue of the murder and to arrest the culprits.
Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, senior reporter of another channel ATN Bangla, had been killed at their rented flat in the capital’s West Rajabazar on February 11 in 2012.
Their only son Mahir Sarowar Megh, then 5, was present at the house at that time.
Following the murder, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police had started an investigation into the case filed in this connection. Later, the case was shifted to DB police. However, on April 18, 2012, the High Court, in an order, shifted the case to RAB for investigation as the former had expressed his inability to resolve the case. At least eight people including Rafiqul Islam, Bakul Miah, Masum Mintu, Kamrul Hasan alias Arun, Abu Sayeed, two security guards of the couple’s house Palash Rudra Paul and Enamul Hoque and the couple’s “family friend” Tanveer Rahman had been arrested, but Tanveer got later freed on bail.
