SRINAGAR: In a major crackdown on terror networks, a Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Guwahati has convicted and sentenced a key accused in a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terror conspiracy case linked to Assam.
A statement reads that, a Key accussed of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terror conspiracy case was on Tuesday convicted and sentenced to simple imprisonment (SI) by the Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Guwahati, Assam.
Accused Md. Kamruj Zaman @ Dr. Hurairah @ Kamaruddin has been awarded three separate SI punishments, with the maximum of life imprisonment, statement reads.
The sentences, which will run concurrently, include imprisonment for life under section 18, UA(P) Act, 1967, and five years SI each under section 18B, UA(P) Act, 1967 read with section 120B IPC, and section 38 of UA(P) Act. The court also awarded the accused Rs. 5,000 as fine, with three months additional SI in case of default, in each of the three instances, it reads.
The case RC 08/2018/NIA-GUW of Jamunamukh, Hojai, Assam, related to a conspiracy by Kamruj Zaman to raise a module of the proscribed HM terror organisation in Assam for carrying out terrorist activities during 2017-18. The conspiracy was aimed at striking terror in the minds of the people. As per NIA investigations, Kamruj had recruited accused Sahnawaz Alom, Saidul Alam, Omar Faruk, along with others, for this purpose, it reads.
The anti-terror agency had in March 2019 chargesheeted five persons, including the abovementioned four men. While Sahnawaz Alom, Saidul Alam and Omar Faruk were convicted after they pleaded guilty, the fifth accused, identified as Jaynal Uddin, had died of illness during the course of the trial, statement reads. (KNC)
