Judge Monzurul Bachhid of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court will pronounce the judgement of the cases at 11:00am in a building adjacent to the Dhaka Central Jail specially set up for the purpose, court sources said.

The cases -- one under the Arms Act, one under the Special Powers Act and the other under the Explosive Substances Act -- were filed with Cantonment Police Station on August 18, 1996.

After completion of arguments from the prosecution and the defence on October 9, the same court had fixed today for delivery of judgement of the cases.

Earlier, the court recorded statements of six prosecution witnesses in each case.

According to the prosecution, a team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) along with the then officer-in-charge (OC) of Cantonment Police Station raided Faruk's house at DOHS in the capital at about 3:45am on August 18, 1996, arrested Faruk and seized a revolver, a shotgun, an airgun, a Sten gun, 616 bullets, eight international passports, 2,830 Pakistani rupees and 62.75 Libyan dinars.

Later, four cases were filed with Cantonment Police Station -- one under the Arms Act, one under the Foreign Currency Control Act, one under the Explosive Substances Act and the other under the Special Powers Act.

Earlier on May 9 last year, the same court acquitted Lt Colonel (dismissed) Syed Farukur Rahman of charges in a case filed for possessing foreign currencies, as the charges brought against him were not proved.

Another court on October 20, 2004 sentenced Faruk to life in jail in the Jail Killing case.