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73 Days into Sagar-Runi Murder

Bodies may be exhumed today

Court permits second autopsy

Staff Correspondent
After around two and a half months of the murder of journalist couple Sagar and Runi, a Dhaka court yesterday permitted Rab to exhume the
remains of their bodies from the graves for fresh autopsies to reveal the mystery surrounding the homicide.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha passed the order following a petition by Senior ASP Mohammad Zafar Ullah of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).
Court sources said it is likely the remains of the bodies would be exhumed anytime today in presence of Executive Magistrate Mohammad Shahiduzzaman.
Zafar, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, in his petition said the viscera test reports of the victims were not preserved by the previous IOs. So it was essential to exhume the remains of the bodies for fresh viscera tests and chemical experiments.
Sagar Sarowar, news editor at private TV station Maasranga, and Meherun Runi, a senior reporter at another TV channel ATN Bangla, were killed in the early hours of February 11 at their rented apartment in the capi-tal'sWest Rajabazar.
The High Court on April 18 vented frustration over the Detective Branch's failure in identifying the killer(s) of the journalist couple and ordered to transfer the case to Rab.
It also ordered the home secretary to form two committees to monitor the progress of the Rab investigation and probe whether there had been any negligence by Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police in preserving evidence of the crime.
The committees have been asked to submit their reports within 30 days.
Meanwhile, the Rab has taken the investigation as a great challenge after the HC showed confidence in it.
"As the HC has expressed its confidence in our capacity, we will try our best to honour it by unfolding the mystery behind the murder. We will engage our highest efforts, technologies and intelligence to become successful," Rab Director General (DG) Mokhlesur Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday.
The Rab had been following the case informally and now it is formally assigned to probe the crime, added the DG.
The elite force has collected the evidences and documents obtained earlier by police and the DB, he main -tained.