Court orders recording Megh's statement
With no apparent progress made till date in the case over the murder of journalist couple Sagar-Runi, a Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Rab investigator to record statements of the couple's only son Mahir Sarowar Megh and Runi's mother and brother, scrutinise cellphone records of two guards who were working at the couple's residence at the time and interrogate the couple's colleagues.
Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey also sought the final probe report from Investigation Officer Wares Ali by November 2.
The orders came after the assistant superintendent of police, now on deputation in Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), submitted a progress report seeking more time.
Only Megh, then five, was home when Sagar Sarowar, news editor at Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were killed at their rented flat in the capital's West Rajabazar on February 11, 2012.
The first to be given the task, the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police had detained four suspects and interrogated some 40 people. Frustrated with its performance, the High Court in April 2012 handed the case over to Rab.
One of the two guards, Humayun Kabir, who was on the run, was arrested on February 9, 2013, but since then no “progress” had been made.
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