The Excessive Court this day removed the Like a flash Lope Battalion (RAB) from the investigation into the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi in 2012.
It also directed the dwelling ministry to make a high-powered job force to analyze the case, which turned into ordered to put up the investigation document in six months.
The Excessive Court bench of Justice Farah Mahabub and Justice Mahbubul Islam handed the recount following an software program that sought to steal away the RAB from the investigation.
The HC bench termed the failure to complete the investigation as unsightly.
Sagar Sarwar, news editor of Machranga Tv, and his partner Mehrun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were murdered on 11 February 2012 of their condo in West Rajabazar of the capital.
As of 30 June, the time of submission of the investigation document of the murder case has been delayed 111 times.
From the assurance of justice internal forty eight hours by then-dwelling minister to the daunting risk of a 50-twelve months investigation length mentioned by the incumbent guidelines minister, the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi remains to be an unresolved mystery even after 12 years.
At the delivery build, after the unsightly murders of the journalist couple of their Dhaka condo on 11 February 2012, Sahara Khatun, the dwelling minister on the time, committed to apprehending the perpetrators internal forty eight hours.
The investigation companies mentioned they were “giving utmost importance to the investigation.”
The Like a flash Lope Battalion (RAB), the agency in the intervening time accountable of the case, sought over 105 extensions to put up its findings to the court.
Earlier on 2 July, the HC mentioned the delays in the Sagar-Runi probe were a continuous mockery of the prison justice scheme.
