A trial court in West Bengal’s Bongaon sub-division on Saturday sentenced two Pakistanis and one Indian national to death for waging war against India.
Mohammad Yunus and Abdullah Khan, both from Pakistan, and Muzaffar Ahmed Rather from Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir — all members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba — were sentenced by a fasttrack court judge Vinay Kumar Pathak.
They were booked under IPC Sections 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war) and 122 (collecting arms with intention of waging war against the government of India), CID DIG (Operations) Nishad Pervej said.
“They had a plan to attack Army camps in Jammu and Kashmir, but before they could do so, they were caught by the BSF,” he said.
Public Prosecutor Samir Das said they were arrested on the India-Bangladesh border at Petrapole on April 4, 2007. The case was handed over to the CID from the Bongoan police station in North 24 Parganas district.
A fourth person who was also arrested — Abdul Sheikh Nayeem alias Sheikh Samir — is absconding, according to the West Bengal police. A resident of Maharashtra, he fled from a train in 2014, the police said.
Defence counsel Subrata Basu said there was not much evidence against the accused. He claimed that it was Sheikh Samir who was the prime accused.
(With PTI inputs)
