Dhaka, Sep 25 (bdnews24.com)--Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday interrogated ATN Bangla Chairman Mahfuzur Rahman over the killing of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
Rahman, who has found himself in the controversy surrounding the murders, was called to the paramilitary force's headquarters after journalists' leaders raised the demand with Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir in a meeting around noon.
RAB Director General Mukhlesur Rahman told bdnews24.com : "The investigating officer of the Sagar-Runi Murder Case questioned him for a long time."
However, the RAB chief declined to go into details.
Maasranga Television News Editor Sagar and ATN Bangla Senior Correspondent Runi were killed at their West Rajabazar residence in the city on Feb 11.
Detective police investigated the murder for two months before the High Court tasked Rapid Action Battalion with the enquiry in April.
Rahman threw himself into controversy after he claimed in London that extra-marital relationship was behind the twin murders. Journalists on the payroll of Rahman scuffled with those who have been demanding that he be arrested and questioned.
Later, different journalists' associations expelled several journalists of ATN Bangla.
In the face of their demands, RAB questioned him on June 21 at the ATN Bangla office. But the journalists pressed on with the agitation and at one point, Rahman filed cases to muffle his critics.
In the meeting, the Home Minister at one point called the ATN Bangla Chairman as a 'media mogul', which Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, chief of a Bangladesh Federal Union Journalist (BFUJ) faction, protested.
"We have already declared the person you are terming media mogul media's enemy."
"He will file cases against us, speak against the Prime Minister but nothing will happen to him. Then where is the rule of law in this country?"
Facing the journalists' wrath about no headway in the probe eight months on, the Home Minister said, "Investigation has made enough progress. I hope it will be possible to unravel Sagar-Runi murder mystery by Oct 10."
When asked about the latest status of their probe, RAB spokesperson Commander M Sohail told bdnews24.com that the report of the DNA test on samples including clothes from Sagar-Runi's residence may arrive from the US around the last week of this month.
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