Dhaka: The High Court will deliver its verdict on the appeals filed by the convicts in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case on Sunday.

A High Court bench comprising justice Jahangir Hossain and justice Md Jahangir Hossain fixed the date on 27 March.

Earlier on 9 January, the HC kept the verdict in the case pending after concluding a 22-day hearing on the death reference and appeal petition of the accused.

The hearing on the appeal petitions and the death reference of the accused began on 7 November last year.

On 15 February, 2013, Ahmed Rajib Haider, an activist of Ganojagoran Mancho, was hacked to death near his house at Mirpur Palash Nagar in the capital.

Later, a Dhaka court on 31 December, 2015, sentenced two people to death, one to life term imprisonment while six others to different jail terms for the murder.

The condemned convicts are Faisal Din Nayeem alias Dwip and Redwanul Azad Rana while the lifer is Maksudul Hasan Anik.