A special court will deliver judgement in sensational Maj Gen Manzoor murder case on February 10.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, who has recently been appointed a special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has been made prime accused in the case.
HM Ershad. Star file photo
Maj Gen Manzoor
Maj Gen Abul Manzoor, an army general who was a war hero, was killed at Chittagong Cantonment on June 1, 1981, just two days into the assassination of the then president Ziaur Rahman.
Judge Hosne Ara Akhter of the First Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court set the date today on conclusion of the closing argument from the prosecution.
The other accused are: Maj (retd) Kazi Emdadul Haque, Lt Col (retd) Mostafa Kamaluddin Bhuiyan, Maj Gen (Retd) Abdul Latif and Lt Col (Retd) Shamsur Rahman Shamser.
Apart from Ershad, Emdadul Haque and Kamaluddin Bhuiyan today were present at the court set up at a building beside Dhaka Central Jail.
The High Court earlier stayed the trial proceedings against the rest two: Abdul Latif and Shamsur Rahman.
Around 14 years after Manzoor’s killing, his elder brother Abul Mansur Ahmed filed a murder case with Panchlaish Police Station on February 28, 1995.
On June 27 that year, Abdul Kahar Akand, the then assistant superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department, pressed charges against Ershad and four others.
The case was later transferred to Dhaka for security reasons.
