The verdict in the murder case of author and Dhaka University Professor Humayun Azad is set to be delivered on Wednesday.
Dhaka Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Al Mamun will pronounce the verdict.
Earlier on March 26, the hearing in the case of the murder that took place 18 years ago ended and the court fixed Wednesday for pronouncing the verdict.
According to the case statement, assailants hacked Humayun Azad on February 26 in 2004 on the way back from Amar Ekushey Book Fair, leaving him severely injured.
The next day, his brother Manjur Kabir filed a case with Ramna Police Station alleging attempted murder.
Later, Humayun Azad died in Germany on August 12 while undergoing treatment. The case then turned into a murder case then.
On 14 January 2007, the investigating officer submitted a charge sheet against five accused.
Of the accused, Mizanur Rahman and Anwar Alam, members of the Shura of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), are in jail, while Salehin alias Salahuddin and Nur Mohammad are on the run while Hafiz Mahmud was killed in a reported gunfight.
