Bengaluru court sentences Bangladeshi terrorist Jahidul Islam to 7 years rigorous imprisonment

A special court in Bengaluru has sentenced a Bangladeshi terrorist to seven years of rigorous imprisonment. The convict Jahidul Islam aka Kausar was also fined 57,000 rupees in the cases connected with offences of dacoity, conspiracy and raising funds, as well as procurement of ammunition. The investigation has revealed that the accused had sneaked into India after carrying out the serial bomb blasts in Bangladesh. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) court passed the order following the investigations proving his role in the Bodhgaya bomb



blast in 2018 and the Burdwan bomb blast case in 2014 and also in a series of cases relating to the promotion of the activities of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh India. With this, a total of 11 accused have been convicted in these cases, the NIA said in a statement.

       

The initial case was registered by Bengaluru City police in June 2019, based on the information generated by NIA during the investigation of the Burdwan Blast case of the agency’s Kolkata Branch Office.