Three more months were yesterday granted for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the Major General Abdul Manzur murder case.
First Additional District and Sessions Judge Badrul Alam Bhuiyan granted the period after hearing a petition filed by Investigation Officer Abdul Kahar Akond, also a special superintendent of police of CID.
This is the fourth time the court has so far granted the time-extension plea by the investigators. The court asked the CID to submit the investigation report by January 8.
The same court on February 27 ordered reinvestigation into the case that was in the final stage of verdict upon a petition filed by Special Public Prosecutor Asaduzzaman Khan Rochi.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, the prime accused in the case, was not present at the court on yesterday because he was earlier exempted from personal appearance before it. His lawyer Sheikh Mohammad Sirajul Islam represented him.
Two other accused Maj (retd) Kazi Emdadul Haque and Lt Col (retd) Mostafa Kamaluddin Bhuiyan however were present at the court.
Manzur, commander of Sector 8 during the War of Liberation, was killed at Chittagong Cantonment on June 1, 1981, just two days into the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman.
He was believed to have carried out an abortive coup in which Zia was assassinated.
On February 28, 1995, Barrister Abul Mansoor Ahmed, brother of slain Manzur, lodged a case with Panchlaish Police Station in Chittagong.
On June 27, 1995, the CID submitted charges before the court against the accused in the case.
