New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Lucknow sentenced one accused to imprisonment and imposed a fine for its involvement in a terror conspiracy linked to the banned terrorist organisation Al Qaeda on Thursday.

The arrests took place based on information shared by one Al-Qaeda member, Umar Halmandi, who had himself identified and recruited some persons in Lucknow for raising the Al-Qaeda module in the region. He had further informed the police about the Al Qaeda affiliate 'Ansaar Gajwatul Hind' (AGH), an outfit raised to carry out a series of terrorist acts before August 15, 2021, in various cities of U.P, especially Lucknow.

According to the NIA, Mohammad Moid, along with two other accus...