No justice for Sagar, Runi
Megh's pain of not knowing why his parents were so cruelly snatched away from him is something we can only imagine. The ten year old's parents, Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, both prominent TV journalists, were brutally murdered when the boy was only five. For five years relatives, the journalist community and indeed ordinary citizens of this country have been wondering what happened to the case; every year we revisit this day to vent our resentment at the lack of progress in the grisly murder. That the case was bounced around by different law enforcement agencies is now old news. It is heartening to know that a Dhaka court on February 8 directed RAB to inform it by March 21 the progress in the investigation.
We applaud the court for its direction, but we find it surprising that the various agencies that have been investigating the matter over the last five years have not been able to get to the bottom of this case. We say surprising because specialised units like RAB and the police, who have played a laudable role in containing the religious extremists in the country, have not be able to identify the murderers of this couple as of yet. We wonder whether this case will meet the same fate as many other sensational murders like that of Tonu's. Public confidence in the system is sapped by unresolved cases becoming the norm, and that does not befit any society claiming to possess a fair justice system.
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