India, Dec. 31 -- A special court in Guwahati has sentenced an Assam man to life imprisonment for attempting to set up a module of the proscribed Hizbul Mujahideen terror group to carry out terror attacks in the state in 2017-18.

A statement issued by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said the prime accused in the case, Md. Kamruj Zaman, also known as Dr Hurairah and Kamaruddin, was convicted by the special court on three offences and sentenced to jail.

It said Zaman was sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for conspiring to commit a terrorist act, and five years each for recruiting people to commit a terrorist act and for associating with a terror group to further its activit...