DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday fixed December 30 for submitting the report on investigation into journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi killing case.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Maruf Hossain passed the order as investigation officer of the case Wares Ali, also assistant director of RAB Headquarters’ Investigation and Forensic Department, failed to submit probe report within the stipulated time.

Earlier, the date to submit the prove report had been deferred for 29 times, though, a total of 34 months have been passed since the murder.

On March 16, the CMM court had asked to the investigation committee to submit details of headway of investigation of the case.  

Following the court order, investigation officer Wares Ali had submitted a partial report before the court on March 20.

Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV station Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of another TV channel ATN Bangla, were brutally killed at their rented apartment in the capital's West Razabazar on February 11 in 2012.   

Runi’s brother, Nowsher Alam Roman filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Thana on February 12, 2012. 

BDST: 1657 HRS, DEC 09, 2014