The journalists Sagar-Runi murder case has virtually seen no headway over the last six years.
The only progress is that the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has submitted time extension petitions for 53 times.
Investigators failed to recover two laptops of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi who were killed in their bedroom on February 11, 2012 in the capital.
The RAB has already received a report from the USA but they now say they need more time to analyze the report considering the sensitivity of the case.
The RAB has already spent Tk1cr on its investigation but so far submitted five reports on the progress of its investigation with 'no clue.'
The battalion has also interrogated nearly 160 people, including 27 journalists, the case documents show.
They arrested eight suspects at times but could neither identify the killers nor establish the motive behind the murders of the couple.
The ghastly twin murders were committed sometime between 2:00am and 5:00am. Mainly sharp knives were used to stab and kill them. A total of twenty eight stab wounds were found in Sagar's body and five stab wounds in Runi's body.
Sagar's hands were tied at the back with a scarf and his legs were bound with another scarf. It seemed that the killers had more anger towards Sagar and they were not professionals. If the assassins were professionals, they would not have made so many stabs.
The rooms of the flat were found virtually ransacked though without two laptops nothing was missing.
Immediately after the gruesome occurrence Runi's brother Nowsher Alam Roman filed a murder case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. Within a couple of days Detective Branch (DB) of police took charge of the investigation.
Being an agency responsible for hunting down and arresting perpetrators RAB is conducting investigation but they have not been able to get to the bottom of this case yet.
They have so far arrested eight accused namely Rafiqul Islam, Bokul Mia, Masum Mintu, Kamrul Hasan Orun, Polash Rudro Pal, Tanvir Rahman, Abu Sayeed and Enam Ahmed.
Among them, caretaker of the house Polash Rudro Pal and Sagar-Runi's family friend Tanvir R free on bail now.
RAB sent DNA samples of 16 suspects to the US along with a knife and samples of clothes as crime-scene evidence. According to forensic report, two people were involved in the killings.
After receiving the report RAB informed that forensic specialists didn't find any similarity between the killers' DNA and the DNA samples of the suspects.
Following a Dhaka court instruction, ASP Mohiuddin Ahmed, the Investigation Officer of the case, has submitted a total of 8 progress reports before it.
The court fixed 54 dates in the last six years asking RAB to submit the probe report, but the Investigation Officer always sought more time! In the most recent development of the case on February 1, 2018, the court ordered to submit the charge sheet of the case on March 13.
