New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Wednesday sentenced a key accused to ten years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a Pakistan-linked case relating to recruitment and radicalisation of Muslim youth for the banned Laskar-e-Taiba terror organisation in West Bengal.
Sayyad M. Idris of the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka has been convicted and sentenced concurrently under various sections of the IPC and the UA(P) Act, with the maximum sentence of 10 years RI, as per the orders of the NIA special court at Kolkata. The accused has also been fined a sum of Rs. 70,000.
NIA, which took over the case from the West Bengal police in April 2020, had arrested Idris, along with Altaf Ahmed Rather of J&K, dur...