Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court on Thursday set 18 June for filing the probe report in the sensational case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, extending the deadline for the 126th time.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ariful Islam passed the order, as the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) failed to submit the report on the scheduled date.
On 26 April, the High Court granted the government-formed taskforce six more months to complete the investigation into the murder case.
Earlier, on 23 October, 2025, the High Court gave six additional months to the task force to submit its report.
On 30 September, 2024, the HC asked the government to form a high-powered task force to probe the murder case and submit a report within six months.
Following the court order, the immediate past interim government formed the task force on 23 October, 2024, led by the chief of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).
The journalist couple was brutally murdered at their rented flat in the city’s West Rajabazar on 11 February 2012, in the presence of their then four-year-old son, Mahir Sarwar Megh.
Runi’s brother Nawser Alam later filed a murder case with the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Initially, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) was entrusted with the charge of the investigation into the murder case, which was later transferred to the RAB.
