Printed on: Dec 03, 2025 09:17 pm IST
The 5 members of banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had been charged with plotting to hold out terror assaults in India, booked below 15 sections of the IPC and the Foreigners Act
Kolkata: 5 members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), arrested in 2016 from numerous components of West Bengal and Assam, had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kolkata courtroom on Wednesday, a press release issued by the Particular Job Drive (STF) of town police stated.
Six JMB members — Anwar Hossain Faruque, Md. Rubel, Maulana Yusuf Sk, Md. Sahidul Islam, Jabirul Islam and Abdul Kalam — had been arrested on September 26, 2016, from Bengal and Assam with explosives, parts of improvised explosive gadgets (IEDs), paperwork, laptops and foreign money notes, the assertion issued by further commissioner of police Solomon Nesakumar added.
The suspects had been charged with plotting to hold out terror assaults in India and booked below 15 sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Foreigners Act.
Periods courtroom choose Rohan Sinha introduced life sentences for 5 of the convicts however discharged Abdul Kalam citing lack of proof.
5 of those males had been earlier convicted within the 2014 Khagragarh blast, which was probed by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA), the assertion stated.
On October 2, 2014, when Bengal was celebrating Durga Puja, an improvised explosive gadget (IED) explosion killed two suspected terrorists and injured a 3rd particular person whereas they had been making bombs and explosive gadgets at a rented home within the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan city. The police had seized 55 IEDs and bomb-making supplies from the positioning.
The Union dwelling ministry banned JMB and its factions in Could 2019.
