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The High Court has asked the committee investigating the Narayanganj 7-murder to report progress by June 4. The investigation body, formed at the High Court’s order, filed its primary report on Wednesday and sought a month’s time to finish the probe. On Thursday, the report was presented to the bench of justices Md Rezaul Haque and Gobinda Chandra Thakur. Bodies of seven men, including Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar, were found floating on Shitalakkha River several days after their abduction was reported on April 27. The bench ordered formation of a committee to probe alleged involvement of law enforcers in the crime two days after Nazrul’s father-in-law claimed that the Commanding Officer of Rab-11 in Narayanganj had taken Tk 60 million to carry out the killings. A week later, another bench ordered arrest of three former Rab-11 officers suspended over the crime after Chandan’s son-in-law and two others moved it seeking judicial probe. It also forwarded the matter to the bench of justices Haque and Thakur. Headed by public administration’s Additional Secretary Md Shahjahan Ali Molla, the 7-member panel is probing whether any member of the law-enforcing agency was involved in the crime. It is also see whether there was any negligence on the law enforcers’ part in rescuing the 7 abductees, according to a news agency.