Sagar-Runi Murder
Info from 2 accused being verified
An investigation officer (IO) told a Dhaka court yesterday that he gathered important information from two accused in journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case.
The information derived from the two accused -- Tanvir Rahman and Palash Rudra Pual -- was being verified.
Md Zafar Ullah, senior assistant superintendent of police of Rapid Action Battalion, also the case's investigation officer, said this while he was producing the two before the court on completion of their eight day remand.
First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hussain rejected bail petitions of two accused and ordered to send them to jail as the IO did not seek further remand to quiz them.
However, the IO said the two would be remanded again if necessary.
Meanwhile, five more accused -- Mintu alias Bargira Mintu, Kamrul Hassan Arun, Md Bakul Miah, Rafiqul Islam and Abu Sayeed -- were earlier placed on a five-day remand each in the same case.
The IO was quizzing them on remand to find out clues about the killing.
Sagar, news editor at the private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Runi, senior reporter at another TV channel ATN Bangla, were killed in the wee hours of February 11 at their rented apartment in the capital's West Rajabazar.
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