India, Dec. 3 -- Five members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), arrested in 2016 from various parts of West Bengal and Assam, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kolkata court on Wednesday, a statement issued by the Special Task Force (STF) of the city police said.

Six JMB members - Anwar Hossain Faruque, Md. Rubel, Maulana Yusuf Sk, Md. Sahidul Islam, Jabirul Islam and Abdul Kalam - were arrested on September 26, 2016, from Bengal and Assam with explosives, components of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), documents, laptops and currency notes, the statement issued by additional commissioner of police Solomon Nesakumar added.

The suspects were charged with plotting to carry out terror attacks in India and booke...