Sagar-Runi Murder: Rab gets 101st date to submit probe report

A Dhaka court yesterday extended till August 7 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012.

This is the 101st extension of the deadline.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shafuddin passed the order after Rab official Khondoker Shafiqul Alam, the investigation officer of the case and also an additional superintendent of police, failed to submit the report, court sources said.

On May 22 this year, the same court asked Rab to submit the report by yesterday.

Earlier, two separate courts expressed dissatisfaction over the probe and the investigators' failure to unearth the motive behind the killings and arrest the real culprits.

Sagar, news editor at private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Runi, senior reporter at ATN Bangla, were killed in the early hours of February 11, 2012, in their rented flat in the capital's West Razabazar.

Their only son Mahir Sarowar Megh, then 5, was home at that time. Nousher Ali Roman, brother of Runi, filed a case with Sher-e-Bangla Police Station the following day.