India, May 21 -- An alleged Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operative, who was arrested in the Shajapur serial blast case in 2017, will be tried as an adult in the juvenile court, two years after he was sentenced to capital punishment by special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Lucknow court in another case.

The accused, who hails from Bhopal, was arrested from Hoshangabad by the Madhya Pradesh anti-terrorism squad (ATS) after the blast in Bhopal-Ujjain train near Jabri railway station in Shajapur on March 7, 2017, which left 10 people injured.

He was arrested with seven others by the Uttar Pradesh ATS for planning the blast and waging war against the country. "He was part of an IS module in India planning multiple blasts in s...