CID gets two more months for probe

A Dhaka court yesterday gave Criminal Investigation Department (CID), for the tenth time, two more months to complete the investigation in a case filed over killing of Maj Gen Abul Manzur in 1981.

First Addition District and Sessions Judge's Court fixed April 24 for submission of the probe after CID Special Superintendent Abdul Kahar Akond, also investigation officer of the case, sought time to verify evidence found.

The then chief of army staff HM Ershad, now Jatiya Party chief and special envoy to the prime minster, is the main accused in the case.

Ershad was exempted from appearing before the court. Two others accused--Maj (retd) Kazi Emdadul Haque and Lt Col (retd) Mostafa Kamaluddin Bhuiyan--were present yesterday.

Manzur, the commander of sector-8 during the Liberation War, was killed in Chittagong Cantonment on June 1, 1981, two days after the assassination of the then president Ziaur Rahman.