City Desk:
A Dhaka court on Tuesday set May 21 for filing a probe report in the sensational case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, extending the deadline for the submission of the report for the 117th time.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Azharul Islam passed the order, allowing a time plea of the prosecution as the investigation agency failed to submit the report on Tuesday, reports BSS. The journalist couple was brutally murdered at their rented flat in the city’s West Rajabazar on February 11, 2012, in the presence of their (then) four-year-old son Mahir Sarwar Megh. Runi’s brother Nawser Alam filed a murder case with the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
At that time, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) was entrusted with the charge of the investigation into the murder case, which was later transferred to the RAB. The elite crime-busting agency failed to submit the investigation report in court after taking time 111 times in 12 years.
On September 30, 2024, the High Court ordered the formation of a high-power task force through the Ministry of Home Affairs to probe the case, removing RAB from the charge. The government, on October 23, 2024, formed a four-member task force to investigate the double murder. The task force was formed through a notification from the Ministry of Home Affairs. The notification asked the task force to submit its probe findings in six months.
