Submission of probe report deferred for 97th time

A Dhaka Court on Sunday deferred again the date of submission of the investigation report of the case filed in connection with the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

It has asked the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to submit the probe report by May 22 this year.

With this, the deadline for submission of probe report in the case deferred for 97th time.

Judge of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) in Dhaka, Md Rashidul Alam, passed the order, said Jalal Uddin, General Registrar Officer (GRO) for Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station cases.

Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, senior reporter of another channel ATN Bangla, were 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 at home at that time.

Following the murder, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police had 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.

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