A Dhaka Court today deferred the verdict on the long-pending Gen. Manzoor murder case. The court fixed February 27 to hear the closing arguments once again. The newly appointed Judge Khondker Hasan Md Firoz of the First Additional District Session and Judges’ Court of Dhaka made the decision Monday morning. The prime accused in the case Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad arrived at the court at 11:00 am. The other two accused are Maj (retd) Kazi Emdadul Haque, Lt Col (retd) Mostafa Kamaluddin Bhuiyan. The trial proceedings against Maj Gen (retd) Abdul Latif and Lt Col (retd) Shamsur Rahman Shamser have been suspended following a high court order. 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.
