The principal city civil and session court convicted Bilal Ahmed Quta alias Imran Jalal, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for laundering money for terrorist activities.
Jalal, who was operating out of Karnataka, was arrested in 2007 while he was stepping out of a bus in Bengaluru. He had come from Hospet. The police recovered an AK series assault rifle, 200 bullets, five hand grenades and a satellite phone from him.
He was booked for ‘waging war’ against the government of India, possession of arms and explosives, and other sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), tried by a court and convicted. After his conviction, the Directorate of Enforcement, Bangalore zonal office, initiated an investigation under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Subsequently, a prosecution complaint was filed in a civil court, which convicted Jalal. He was sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a penalty of ₹50,000. Failure to pay the penalty will result in additional imprisonment of six months.
