Dhaka – The First Additional District and Session’s Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday fixed September 17 for submission of the supplementary investigation report in Major General Abul Manzoor murder case.Judge SM Saiful Islam of the court passed the order following an appeal of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police.
Public Prosecutor Asaduzzaman told newsmen that CID officer Abdul Kahar Akand was supposed to the submit the supplementary report on Sunday, however, they failed to give the report. The trial of the case has been going at a special court room, set up besides the central jail of Dhaka.
February 10 of 2014, had been fixed for pronouncing the verdict in the sensational case. Before that, the then judge of the court, Hosne Ara Akhter was transferred from this court. Later, following a plea of the prosecution, the concerned court passed order for further investigation in the case on February 27, 2017.
Manzoor was the commander of Sector-8 during the Liberation War. He was killed at Chittagong Cantonment on June 1, 1981, two days after the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman.
On February 28, 1995, 14 years after the murder, freedom fighter Manzoor’s brother Barrister Abul Mansur Ahmed lodged the murder case with Panchlaish Police Station of Chittagong port city. – Special Correspondent
