Jammu, July 23 -- Two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists have been awarded life imprisonment in a case of abduction and murder by a Ramban court. The convicts have been identified as Mohammad Mumtaz and Farooq Ahmed.

Principal district and sessions judge Deepak Sethi sentenced both to life imprisonment for the commission of offence under Section 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code and 10-year imprisonment for the commission of offence under Section 364 of the RPC. Both the sentences will run concurrently.

The case was registered at Gool police station on December 17, 2003, over kidnapping and killing of Mushtaq Ahmed, a resident of Gagarsulla in Gool, on the intervening night of December 16 and 17 that year. The deceased was taken out of his house b...