Journalists in Khulna on Monday demanded reinvestigation of all the four journalist murder cases in the city that occurred between 2002 and 2005.
They Raised the demand at a discussion meeting arranged by Khulna Press Club at the club auditorium to mark the seventh death anniversary of Khulna Press Club president Humayun Kabir Balu.
Balu, who was also the editor of local daily Janmobhumi, was bombed to death in front of his office-cum-residence on Islampur Road in the city on June 27, 2004.
Speakers at the discussion meeting said that all the accused people in Balu murder case were acquitted of the charges and police failed to submit the investigation report on the case of bomb explosion that killed him.
They alleged that the real killers and masterminds of journalists murder always remained behind the scene and demanded arrest and punishment of the real culprits.
The meeting chaired by the club president Sheikh Abu Hasan was also addressed by The Daily Tribune editor Ferdausi Ali, former president of press club Wadudur Rahman Panna, general secretary Saheb Ali, Khulna Union of Journalists president Mokbul Hossain Mintu and general secretary Subir Roy.
Earlier, Khulna Press Club members placed wreaths at the Shaheed Sangbadik Smritistambha at the Club premises to pay respect to Balu.
Later, they brought out a silent procession from the Janmabhumi Bhaban which dispersed at Basupara graveyard where they placed wreaths and offered prayers for the eternal peace of the departed soul of Balu.
In Khulna, journalist Harun-Or-Rasid of the Daily Purbanchal was shot dead in 2002, New Age senior staff correspondent Manik Chandra Saha and The Daily Janmabhumi editor Humayun Kabir Balu were bombed to death in 2006 and The Daily Sangram Khulna bureau chief Sheikh Belal Uddin was bombed to death in 2005.
Source : New Age
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