A Sylhet Court is set to deliver the verdict in the case filed over the attempted murder of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus on March 3, 2018.

A Sylhet court starts the trial of a case filed over the attempted murder of eminent educationist Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus on March 3 last year.

Investigators have claimed that a “sleeper cell” of a militant outfit was behind the knife attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.

The attacker of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal has been identified as Foyzur Rahman, a madrasa student.

Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, who came under a knife attack yesterday and is undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, is now doing well and is out of danger, a doctor in CMH says.

Even with three stab wounds on the back of his head, he talked to his students in a teacherly way. “Don't make so much noise; I am trying to control myself as much as I can. Hold me; my blood group is A positive,” one of the students quoted him as saying.