Lucknow's NIA court awarded death sentence to 7 convicts and life imprisonment to 1 in the 2017 Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case. This decision came at around 8 pm on Tuesday night. At that time all the eight terrorists were present in the court. A total of 9 terrorists were involved in the train blast. One of them has already died.
Sentenced to death: 1. Mohd. Faisal, 2. Ghaus Mohd. Khan, 3. Mohd. Azhar, 4. Atif Muzaffar, 5. Mohd. Danish, 6. Syed Mir Hussain, 7. Asif Iqbal Life imprisonment: Mohd. Atif Irani It was killed in the encounter: Saifullah
Used to incite the youth by showing Zakir Naik's video
The NIA, in its report presented in the court, had accused 9 terrorists of waging war against the country, raising funds, explosives and weapons for terrorist activities and also gave evidence of the same. The investigating agency had told that these people used to incite the youth for Jihad by showing videos of Zakir Naik. Charges were framed in this case on March 21, 2018. On Friday i.e. February 24, the court convicted the remaining 8 terrorists Mohammad Faisal, Gaus Mohammad Khan, Mohammad Azhar, Atif Muzaffar, Mohammad Danish, Syed Mir Hussain, Asif Iqbal Rocky and Mohammad Atif Irani.
Saifullah was killed in the encounter
Police arrested the terrorists after the encounter. Saifullah was killed in an encounter at Kakori in Lucknow. While a large quantity of ammunition and weapons were recovered from the other accused. After this, while investigating the case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against the rest of the accused.
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