Sagar-Runi killings: NHRC moves HC for Tanvir\\\'s bail

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has moved High Court, seeking bail for Md Tanvir Rahman, arrested and currently in jail over the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi. The bench of justices Mirza Hussain Haider and Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar asked the petitioner to file an appeal against the judicial court’s bail rejection order at the regular High Court bench after adjourning the hearing on Sunday. The plaintiff’s lawyer Fawzia Karim Firoz later told reporters that the judicial court, on June 26, had rejected Tanvir’s bail plea. ‘Now we’ll move the regular High Court bench against the order. If we are rejected there, too, we’ll come back to this bench with that order’s copy.’ Tanvir’s lawyer said the judicial court in 2012 had rejected the man’s bail plea. Later, he moved the High Court. But on June 2 last year, a bench dismissed his plea on technical grounds. Later, a vacation bench granted Tanvir bail for a brief period, referring the matter to a regular bench. But the man was not released as the jail had not received the order copy. Tanvir, believed to be a family friend of the slain journalist couple, was the deputy manager of the Scholastica School in Dhaka. After police presented in court after his arrest in 2012, he was sent to 7 days’ remand on Oct 10 that year. He is in jail since then, according to bdnews24.com.