Sagar-Runi murder case report deferred 102nd time to Nov 16

Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi

A Dhaka court today deferred till November 16, the deadline for submitting the probe report of the case filed over the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012.

This is the 102nd extension of the submission deadline.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order after the Rapid Action Battalion's (RAB) Investigation Officer failed to submit the report on Sunday.

The couple was brutally murdered in their rented apartment in West Rajabazar of the capital on February 11 of 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 filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. Four days later, the investigation was handed over to Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP) Detective Branch (DB).

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