ATN boss quizzed at Rab HQ

This June 21 TV grab shows Rab's media and legal wing director Commander M Sohail enquires Mahfuzur Rahman at the ATN Bangla head office in the capital.Star Online Report

Rapid Action Battalion interrogated ATN Bangla Chairman Mahfuzur Rahman at the force's headquarters in connection with the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi on Tuesday, said Rab Director General Mukhlesur Rahman.
The investigation officer of the case told The Daily Star that they quizzed the ATN chief for around two hours from 11:00am about the statement he made at London press conference and many issues related to the journalists.
Meanwhile, Home Minister MK Alamgir on Tuesday expressed his hope that the motive behind the killings would be unearthed by October 10.
"By October 10, hopefully, we will be able to comment on the exact progress in this regard, or on those who we are going to identify as the criminals," the newly-appointed minister told journalists at his secretariat office.
Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of another TV channel ATN Bangla, were killed on February 11 at their rented apartment in the capital's West Razabazar.
Frustrated over the Detective Branch's failure to identify the killer(s) of Sagar and Runi, the High Court on April 18 ordered the authorities concerned to shift the case to Rab.