Journos demand arrest of 'real killers'

Journalists yesterday demanded arrest of the "real killers" of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi and their trial through a speedy trial tribunal.
They also threatened to continue their agitation as long as the real perpetrators are not brought to book and said they would announce fresh programmes on October 15 if their demands were not met within that time.
Eight months into the killing, the journalists yesterday held a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club commemorating Sagar and Runi, who were killed in their apartment in the capital on February 11. Sagar was a news editor at Maasranga television and his wife Runi was a senior reporter at ATN Bangla.
Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, president of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), hoped that the motive behind the murder would be revealed soon. As four of the arrestees are professional killers, “we want to know who used them to kill the couple and what their motive was,” he said.
Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir named seven suspects in the brutal murder On Tuesday and said four of them were professional killers.
Former BFUJ president Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul, president of a faction of the BFUJ Ruhul Amin Gazi, BFUJ Secretary General Abdul Jalil Bhuyian, Jatiya Press Club President Kamaluddin Sabuj, DUJ presidents Omar Faruque and Abdus Shahid, and Dhaka Reporters Unity president Shakhawat Hossain Badsha also addressed the rally.