Journalists on Sunday place wreaths at a monument built on the Khulna Press Club premises in memory of the slain journalists. Photo: Metropolis-
Metropolis Report, Khulna-
The 19th death anniversary of eminent journalist Manik Saha has been observed in Khulna city.
Journalists and leaders of socio-cultural and political organizations on Sunday placed wreaths at a monument built on the Khulna Press Club premises in memory of the slain journalist.
On January 15 in 2004, Manik Saha was killed in a bomb attack near the Khulna Press Club. He was a senior reporter of vernacular Bangla daily Sangbad. He did also work for the New Age, Ekushey TV and BBC radio. Saha received the Ekushey Padak for his contribution to journalism.
Immediately after the murder police filed two cases, one under Explosives Act, accusing “anonymous killers” for the assassination and after investigations submitted the charge sheet in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate naming 13 suspects on December 12, 2008.
On November 30, 2016, Khulna Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced nine outlaws of banned Biplobi (Janajuddha) and Purba Banglar Communist Party to life term imprisonment and acquitted two outlaws of Manik Saha killing case.
