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Order to quickly conclude investigation into Sagar-Runi murder case
The court has ordered the investigating officer to quickly complete the investigation in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi. Although the date for submitting the investigation report in the case was set for Sunday, it did not happen. The court has set a new date for submitting the investigation report on November 30. The date for submitting the investigation report in the case has been postponed 121 times.
Order to quickly conclude investigation into Sagar-Runi murder case
Dhaka’s CMM Court Magistrate Minhazur Rahman issued this order today.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Crime and Information Division Sub-Inspector (SI) Rafiqul Islam confirmed this information to Prothom Alo.
Police and court-related sources say that as per the court’s order, the investigating officer in the case, Additional Superintendent of Police of the PBI, Md. Azizul Haque, appeared in court today on Sunday. He verbally informed the court about the progress of the investigation in the case. Later, the court ordered the investigating officer in the case to quickly submit the investigation report. After a decade, the responsibility of investigating the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi has been given to the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI). On November 4 last year, the PBI received the case documents from the previous investigation agency, RAB. PBI’s Additional Superintendent of Police Md. Azizul Haque was given the responsibility of investigating the case.
On February 11, 2012, the journalist couple was brutally murdered in a rented house in West Rajabazar in the capital. Sagar was the news editor of Maasranga Television. Runi was a senior reporter of ATN Bangla.
Runi’s brother Nausher Alam filed a case with the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in the capital over the murder of Sagar and Runi. Initially, the police of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station were investigating the case. Four days later, the investigation of the case was handed over to the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
On April 18, 2012, 62 days after taking over the investigation, the DB admitted its failure in the High Court. Then the court ordered RAB to investigate the case. Since then, RAB has been investigating the case.
According to the information received, eight people have been arrested so far in the incident. Currently, two are out on bail, while the remaining six are in prison.
