A Dhaka court yesterday, for the 14th time, gave Criminal Investigation Department (CID) three more months to complete probe into the case over killing Maj Gen Abul Manzur in 1981.

It also fixed June 18 for submission of the probe report following a petition submitted by the CID.

In the petition, CID Special Superintendent Abdul Kahar Akond, also the investigation officer, said he could not complete the probe in due time as he could not interrogate all the witnesses. Moreover, he was investigating the Shohagi Jahan Tanu murder case filed in Comilla district.

Defence lawyers of the August 21 grenade attack cases cross-examined him as the investigation officer three days a week.

The then army chief HM Ershad, now Jatiya Party chief, has been made the main accused in the charge sheet. Ershad was exempted from court appearance.

Two other accused, Maj (retd) Kazi Emdadul Haque and Lt Col (retd) Mostafa Kamaluddin Bhuiyan, were present yesterday.

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

The murder case was filed on February 28, 1995.