DHAKA, Sept 29, 2024 (BSS) - Plaintiff’s lawyer in the sensational Sagor-Runi murder case, Advocate Shishier Manir today said that they will appeal to the court to shift the responsibility of investigation of the case from the elite force RAB to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Talking to the journalists, Adv. Manir, a lawyer of the Supreme Court said he will submit a petition to the Metropolitan Magistrate Court on October 15 to shift the investigation authority from RAB to PBI.
     
The RAB has sought time for submitting the probe report in the case for 111 times and now, we want to keep confidence in the PBI to unearth the mystery of the murder and to identify the killers of the journalist couple Sagor and Runi.

The reports of the DNA test of two persons can help the investigators to find out the actual killers of Sagor and Runi, he said.

He expressed the hope that the new probe agency (PBI) would be able to find out if anybody or influential quarter had influenced the RAB to divert the investigation into any wrong direction or to hide anything. 

Showing his desperateness to unearth the mystery of the case, advocate Shishier Manir said he will soon meet the investigators in this regard.

Nawsher Ali Roman, younger brother of Mehrun Runi and also the complainant of the case, earlier told the journalists that advocate Shishier Manir will move for the deceased’s family from now on.

Sagor Sarwar, a news editor of private Manchranga Television and Mehrun Runi, a reporter of ATN Bangla were murdered in their rented flat at West Rajabazar area on February 11, 2012 where their only son Mahir Sarwar Megh was present.

A case was registered with city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police at that time but it was shifted to the Detective Branch (DB) of police within three days. The case was finally taken to the RAB on April 18 in that year.

After a day of the killing, the then Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud Khandkar told the journalists that significant progress has been made in the investigation process of the case.

After two days, the then Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun had said that the mystery of the killing would be brought to light and the killers to be arrested soon.

Different journalist and human right bodies have been demanding the arrest of the killers of Sagor-Runi and to find out the mystery of the murder during the last 12 years.