Rab asked to submit probe report by Aug 13

Slain journalist couple Sagor Sarowar and Meherun Runi

A Dhaka court today asked Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to submit a probe report before it by August 13 in journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi murder case.

Metropolitan Magistrate Anwar Sadat passed the order as Wares Ali, assistant superintendent of police of Rab, failed to submit the probe report today as per the court’s May 25 order.

Reason behind the non-compliance of the court order could not be known immediately.

Earlier on March 10, Rab submitted to the High Court a progress report on the investigation of the murder case.

A total of eight accused of the case are now behind the bar.

Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, senior reporter of another channel ATN Bangla, had been killed at their rented flat in the capital's West Rajabazar on February 11 in 2012.