A Dhaka court on Monday ordered Azizul Haque, the investigation officer in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, to appear in person and explain why the probe report has not yet been submitted.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ariful Islam passed the order after Additional Superintendent of Police Md Azizul Haque of the PBI failed to present the report to the court.
The submission deadline was deferred for the 124th time, and the court has set 1 April as the next date for submission of the investigation report.
Earlier on September 30, the HC asked the government to form a high-powered taskforce to probe the murder case and submit a report within six months.
Following the court order, the current interim government formed a high-powered task force on October 23 last year led by the chief of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).
Sagar, a news editor at private television channel Maasranga TV, and Runi, a senior reporter at ATN Bangla, were murdered in their rented apartment in Dhaka’s West Rajabazar on February 11, 2012.
Their four-and-a-half-year-old son Mahir Sarowar Megh was present in the house at the time of the murder.
Runi’s brother, Naosher Alam, filed the murder case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station following the murders.