A Dhaka court today (Oct 15) deferred till November 18 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012.

This is the 112th extension of the submission deadline.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed the order.

According to court sources, earlier Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was investigating the case, but now it has been shifted to the task force formed by the court. At the same time the court also directed the members of the task force to submit the investigation report by November 18.

The couple was brutally murdered in their rented apartment in West Rajabazar on February 11, 2012.

Sagar Sarowar was a broadcast news editor at Maasranga TV and Meherun Runi was a senior reporter at ATN News. Their four-year-old son Mahir Sarowar Megh was present at the apartment at the time of the murder.

Runi’s brother Nousher Alam lodged the murder case at the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station. Four days later, the investigation was handed over to Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP) Detective Branch (DB).

On 18 April 2012, 62 days after they got the investigative duty, DB accepted failure. The court then instructed RAB to investigate the case.

BDST: 1514 HRS, OCT 15, 2024
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