RAB removed, formation of task force ordered for probe

The High Court has removed Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from the charge of investigating the case filed over the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi.

The court also ordered the formation of a high-level task force to investigate the case and asked to submit the investigation report within the next 6 months.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has been asked to implement this directive.

The High Court bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam issued the order on Monday (September 30).

Sagar, news editor of private TV station Maasranga and his wife Runi, senior reporter of another private TV channel, ATN Bangla, were brutally murdered at their rented apartment in Dhaka’s West Rajabazar area on February 11, 2012. 

Nousher Ali Roman, brother of Runi, filed a case at Sher-e-Bangla police station the following day. 

Law enforcement officials have so far arrested eight people in connection with the double murder. 

They are Tanvir, Rafiqul Islam, Bakul Mia, Abu Syed, Mintu alias Baggira Mintu alias Masum Mintu, Quamrul Hasan alias Arun, security guard Enam Ahmed alias Humayun Kabir and Palash Rudra Pal.