Sagar-Runi murder: Probe report submission deferred for 100th time
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The deadline for submission of the probe report in the murder case of journalist- couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi is deferred for the 100th time.
A Dhaka court on Monday fixed September 11 for submission of the probe report in the murder case.
Judge of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) in Dhaka Md Rashidul Alam passed the order, said Md Alamgir Hossain, General Register Officer (GRO) for Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station cases.
Rab official and Additional Superintendent of Police Khondoker Md Shafiqul Alam is now investing the case.
Meanwhile, RAB on Monday said they are looking for two culprits behind the 2012 killing of a journalist couple.
"DNA test reports from the US have revealed information about two people. We are working to identify them," RAB's Law and Media Wing Director Commander Khandaker Al Moin said at a press briefing on Monday.
Khandaker Al Moin said that evidence from 25 people was collected and sent to the US for DNA reports.
"We have got information about two people, but we are yet to identify them. In the report we received, we did not find anything that would lead us to any concrete information. The investigation officer is still not sure who was involved in the murder," the Rab official said.
Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV station 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 home at that time.
Following the murder, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police 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 its 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.