Manhattan prosecutors said Friday that they still haven’t obtained a murder indictment in the stabbing death of a Hofstra grad in a luxury Midtown apartment more than five months ago.

Nearly 50 members of the victim’s grim-faced family and friends were in court for the brief case update to the judge.

Three men — James Rackover, Larry Dilione and Max Gemma — are charged with tampering with evidence and hindering the prosecution in the gruesome slay case of Joseph Comunale of Stamford, Conn., on Nov. 13 — but no murder rap.

Assistant District Attorney Peter Casolaro had assured the court Jan. 17 that a murder charge was forthcoming in the next two months.

But Casolaro told Justice Charles Solomon now more than three months later that prosecutors are still working on presenting the case to a grand jury.

He said “Mr Rackover wants to testify” and that this would be scheduled in the coming days.

He did not specify whether a murder charge would be sought against all of the defendants.

Pat Comunale, the victim’s father, declined comment as he left Manhattan Supreme Court surround by supporters.

The victim’s family’s lawyer said they are firmly behind the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

“We hope and expect that the grand jury will identify not only the people that murdered Joey but the people responsible for the cover-up,” said Robert Abrams outside the courtroom.

“When Joey was viciously murdered, we suspect that there were other people involved in helping with the cover-up, and we expect that those people will be brought to justice as well,” he said.

Comunale, 26, was brutally beaten and stabbed to death at Rackover’s Sutton Place pad in a dispute over cigarettes, according to court papers.

Dilione allegedly told cops that he knocked Comunale unconscious but it was Rackover who strangled him, stabbed him in the head and crudely tried to dismember him with a serrated knife.

The pals dumped the corpse in Oceanport, NJ, where they doused it in gasoline and lit it on fire, Dilione allegedly told authorities.

Rackover, the adopted son of celebrity Manhattan jeweler Jeffrey Rackover, is being held on $1 million bond. The elder Rackover lavished him with gifts and secured the posh apartment for him a few floors below his own residence.

The jeweler has since distanced himself from Rackover, a Florida ex-con who changed his last name from Beaudoin.