COURT CORRESPONDENT

A Dhaka court yesterday extended till September 11 the deadline for submitting the probe report on the 2012 murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi.

This is the 102nd extension of the report submission deadline.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam passed the order after Rab Additional Superintendent of Police Khondoker Md Shafiqul Alam, also the investigation officer of the murder case, failed to submit the report yesterday, court sources said.

The same court on June 22 had asked Rab to submit the probe report by yesterday.

Earlier, two other courts had expressed dissatisfaction over the probe and the investigators’ failure to establish the motive behind the murder and arrest the real culprits.

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