The High Court is set to deliver its verdict tomorrow on a suo moto rule over a case filed over the rape at Murari Chand College campus in Sylhet on September 25 last year.

The HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah will deliver the judgement, court sources said.

The HC bench on September 29 last year issued the suo moto rule following two separate reports published on The Daily Star on September 27 the same year under the headlines "Rape in MC College: 6 accused BCL men moved with impunity" and "Unpublished crimes led to horror like this".

In the rule, the court asked the authorities concerned to "show cause" why they should not be directed to take appropriate legal steps against the principal and hostel superintendent of the MC College for their negligence and failure to save the innocent woman from being raped.

The bench has concluded hearing on the rule on March 11 and kept the issue on CAV, Curiae Advisari Vult -- a Latin term that suggests reserving of judgement until a later time.

The bench also formed a three-member committee headed by Sylhet's District and Sessions Judge Md Bazlur Rahman to conduct an inquiry into the incident of rape at the campus.

The committee submitted its 179-page probe report to the HC bench on October 20 last year, saying that there was negligence of two hostel superintendents, three day-guards, two night-guards.