Dhaka: The High Court will deliver its verdict on Thursday on a rule over the bail of Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, Awami League (AL) lawmaker from Tangail-3 constituency, in the freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.

A two-member HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil fixed the date on Monday concluding the hearing on the rule.

Abdul Baset Majumdar and Yusuf Hossain Humayun argued for MP Rana while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Assistant Attorney General Bashir Ahmed represented the state, reports UNB.

On January 18 last, the High Court issued the rule asking the government to explain as to why Rana should not be granted bail in the Faruk Ahmed murder case.

Rana is a charge-sheeted accused in the case.

When Rana appeared before Tangail Additional District and Session's Judge court ending his 22-month fugitive run on September 18 last, the court sent him to jail.

Faruk Ahmed, a senior AL leader and a freedom fighter, was shot dead in the district town on January 18, 2013.

In February 2016, detectives pressed charges against 14 people, including the ruling party MP and his three brothers, in the Faruk murder case.