Printed on: Dec 03, 2025 09:17 pm IST
The 5 individuals of banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were charged with plotting to enact fright assaults in India, booked below 15 sections of the IPC and the Foreigners Act
Kolkata: 5 individuals of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), arrested in 2016 from lots of facets of West Bengal and Assam, were sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment by a Kolkata court docket on Wednesday, an announcement issued by the Particular Job Pressure (STF) of town police stated.
Six JMB individuals — Anwar Hossain Faruque, Md. Rubel, Maulana Yusuf Sk, Md. Sahidul Islam, Jabirul Islam and Abdul Kalam — were arrested on September 26, 2016, from Bengal and Assam with explosives, parts of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), documents, laptops and foreign money notes, the assertion issued by additional commissioner of police Solomon Nesakumar added.
The suspects were charged with plotting to enact fright assaults in India and booked below 15 sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Foreigners Act.
Classes court docket settle Rohan Sinha launched lifestyles sentences for five of the convicts but discharged Abdul Kalam citing lack of evidence.
5 of those males were earlier convicted within the 2014 Khagragarh blast, which used to be probed by the Nationwide Investigation Agency (NIA), the assertion stated.
On October 2, 2014, when Bengal used to be celebrating Durga Puja, an improvised explosive instrument (IED) explosion killed two suspected terrorists and injured a Third person whereas they were making bombs and explosive devices at a rented home within the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan town. The police had seized 55 IEDs and bomb-making materials from the gap.
The Union home ministry banned JMB and its factions in Would possibly per chance well also simply 2019.
