Keep faith in law men, arrest soon

Home Minister Shahara Khatun yesterday urged all to have faith in the members of law enforcement agencies who she said would soon arrest the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi.
“It's my promise to you as the home minister,” she told newsmen at a meeting at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital.
The minister claimed that the law enforcement agencies did not fail to probe any cases during the tenure of the present government.
“They'll not fail this time too. We'll get a result soon,” she said without elaborating on the progress made in the investigation into the gruesome murder of the young couple in early February.
Besides this case, Shahara said the government had already asked the law enforcement agencies to investigate all the cases filed for killing and torturing journalists in the last two decades.
Sagar, news editor of private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Runi, a senior reporter of another TV channel ATN Bangla, were killed in the small hours on February 11 at their rented apartment in the capital's West Rajabazar.
Detective Branch of police started probing the murders. But frustrated by its failure to identify the killer, the High Court on April 18 ordered shifting of the case to the Rapid Action Battalion. Still, there is no result of the investigation.
The case has recently been included as a sensational one under the home ministry's monitoring cell.
The discussion meeting on implementation of law was organised by National Young Generation.
Additional Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque, General Secretary of Dhaka University Teachers' Association Prof Wahiduzzaman Chan, General Secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists Shaban Mahmud also spoke at the meet.