Bangladeshi terrorist of Ansarullah Bangla Team jailed for 7 yrs

A particular NIA court docket right here on Thursday sentenced a Bangladeshi terrorist of the outlawed Ansarullah Bangla Team to seven years in jail for his involvement in a conspiracy to commit terrorist acts in India.
Rizual Islam, 25, of Bangladesh’s Khulna was convicted underneath sections of the IPC, the UA(P)Act and the Foreigners Act.
The particular NIA court docket sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment of seven years and imposed a effective of Rs 36,000.
The case, initially registered by the STF Kolkata in November 2017, pertains to the arrest of 5 members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in Kolkata.
The ABT is a proscribed terrorist organisation in Bangladesh.

Four of the arrested members had been Bangladeshi nationals and one was Indian.
The NIA re-registered the case in March 2018 and filed a chargesheet in opposition to the 5 accused. Earlier, two accused within the case had been convicted and sentenced by the particular NIA court docket in Kolkata.
The Bangladeshi members of the ABT entered India in 2016 and had been conspiring to commit terrorist acts in India, in accordance with an NIA official.

The accused, who travelled and stayed at Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai within the guise of labourers, had tried to acquire chemical compounds from a store in Patna and had been planning to ascertain hideouts in Ranchi, the official mentioned.
They had been additionally aiming to acquire arms and ammunition in Kolkata, he mentioned.
Several incriminating supplies like a map of Sealdah railway station, Howrah Bridge, literature on explosives and bomb-making, pretend Aadhaar card and faux PAN card had been seized from their possession, the NIA official mentioned.
The trial in opposition to the remaining two charge-sheeted accused continues.