The High Court is set to deliver its verdict on the death references and appeals of the 2001 Ramna Batamul blast case today.

The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Nasreen Akter on April 30 fixed today for delivery of the judgement.

The bench on February 18 kept the death references (trial court documents for confirmation of death sentences), and the appeals, filed by the convicted accused in the cases, as curia advisari vult (meaning the verdict will be delivered any day), after concluding hearing on those.

On April 14, 2001, two bombs went off during 1408 Pahela Baishakh celebrations organised by Chhayanaut at the capital's Ramna Batamul. The bomb blasts left 10 people dead and several injured.

On June 23, 2014 a Dhaka court sentenced Mufti Abdul Hannan, Akbar Hossain alias Helaluddin, Mohammad Tajuddin, Hafez Jahangir Alam Badar, Abu Bakar alias Selim Hawlader, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hye, and Arif Hasan Suman to death.

Abu Taher, Sabbir alias Abdul Hannan, Yahiya, Shawkat Osman, Abdur Rouf, and Shahadat Ullah were sentenced to life in prison.

Abdul Hannan was executed on April 13, 2017 at Kashimpur High Security Prison.

Hannan was executed for carrying out a grenade attack on the then British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in Sylhet on May 21, 2004. Some other accused in that case are absconding.