NIA Court Convicts 4 Indian Mujahideen Operatives For Conspiring To Carry Out Terrorist Attacks Across India

The four Indian Mujahideen operatives, charged under UAPA, had pleaded guilty on July 7 for the case pertaining to a plot to carry out terrorist attacks across the country.

Representative Photo | The NIA accused the IM operatives of undertaking large-scale recruitment/induction of new members for committing terrorist acts in various parts of the country.

Source : PTI

A Delhi court on Monday convicted four Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives in a 2012 case pertaining to hatching a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the government by carrying out terrorist attacks across the country. Special Judge Shailender Malik held the accused named Danish Ansari, Aftab Alam, Imran Khan, and Obaid-Ur-Rehman under various sections of the IPC and the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The court while passing the order noted that the accused had pleaded guilty on July 7, news agency PTI reported.

As per PTI's report, the judge will hear arguments on the quantum of punishment on July 12 and the convicts can get a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the offences.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had registered the case in September 2012 under Sections 121A (conspiracy to wage war against Government of India) and 123 (Concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war) of the IPC.

The IM operatives were also charged under sections 17 (raising funds for terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terror act), 18A (organising terrorist camps), 18B (recruiting persons for terrorist act) and 20 (being member of terror organisation) of the UAPA.

The nodal counter-terrorism agency accused the IM operatives of undertaking large-scale recruitment/induction of new members for committing terrorist acts in various parts of the country with the active aid and support from their Pakistan-based associates and with their sleeper cells within the country by causing bomb blasts at important and prominent places in India, especially in the national capital Delhi, the report mentioned.

According to the central agency, source information revealed that IM operatives and its frontal organisations are receiving regular funding from abroad to finance their terror activities.

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