Sagar-Runi Murder
Five suspects sent on remand
Five suspects in Nitai murder case were sent on a five-day remand each in connection with the killing of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
The five suspects, who were in jail in Nitai killing case, were shown arrested in the journalist couple murder case on October 10 after its investigation officer (IO) Zafar Ullah, also senior assistant SP of Rab, sought remand for 10 days each from a Dhaka court.
The five suspects are--Masum Mintu, Bakul Miah, Rafiqul Islam and Abu Sayeed--and Kamrul Hassan Arun, a former driver of Dr Nitai, an assistant professor of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH). Nitai was killed on August 23.
Following the remand prayer, Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury granted a five-day remand for each yesterday.
The same court on October 10 granted an eight-day remand to two other suspects in the couple murder case--Tanvir Rahman, an official of English medium school Scholastica, and Palash Rudra Pual, a security guard of the building where the couple was murdered.
On October 9, Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir at a press conference named the seven suspects for the journalist couple murder.
The five suspects broke into tears in the dock yesterday after the magistrate asked them about their involvement in the murder. The accused said they knew nothing about the couple murder.
IO Zafar in his forwarding report said the information obtained from the five suspects proved that they were involved in the couple murder. More information about the murder could be gathered if they were interrogated intensively, he added.
Sagar, news editor of private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were killed at their rented apartment in the capital's West Razabazar on February 11 this year.
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