Sunday, July 1, 2012

journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi case goes to Monitoring Cell,Bangladesh


BANGLADESH NEWS

The Home Ministry has included three murder cases to its Monitoring Cell on sensational cases.

These are the murder cases of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali and labour leader Aminul Islam.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Monitoring Cell on Sensational Cases at the ministry on Sunday. The meeting was chaired by Home Minister Shahara Khatun.

"The meeting reviewed 11 cases. Orders have been issued to submit chargesheets in three of the cases within seven days as investigations into those cases have been completed," Shahara told reporters after the meeting.

The cases are: killing of six students by mob beating at Savar, Rajshahi University student Faruque Hossain murder and Alif murder at Gulshan.

The Home Minister said the Monitoring Cell would supervise the investigations of the murder cases of Sagar-Runi, Saudi embassy official and labour leader Aminul Islam, but the investigation officers (IO) would remain the same.

Asked whether the ministry had given any specific time period to investigate the case, Shahara said, "Usually no time limit is given for the cases included in the Monitoring Cell. And this applies for these three cases as well."

She said, however, it has been ordered to complete the investigations within the shortest possible time.

Maasranga Television News Editor Sagar and ATN Bangla Senior Reporter Runi were killed in their own flat at Rajabazar on Feb 11 . The law enforcers are yet to find any clue behind the murder although four months have passes since the killing took place.

Currently, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is investigating the case.

Saudi Arabian embassy official Khalaf Al Ali, 45, died on Mar 6 after he was shot by unknown assailants near his Gulshan house in Dhaka. A Saudi government delegation later visited the spot where Khalaf was shot down.

The body of labour leader Aminul was found in front of a college in Tangail on Apr 5 after he went missing the previous evening.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton later urged Bangladesh government for a fair investigation into the killing.

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