West Bengal court sentences 3 Lashkar militants to death
According to reports, the court had found the trio guilty under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and sentenced them to death for their direct involvement in anti-national activities.
Earlier on Apr 2 in 2007, Border Security Force (BSF) booked four LeT suspects, including two Pakistanis and two Indians, near India-Bangladesh border at Petrapole in North 24 Parganas and they were handed over to West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) later.
"Four Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, Md. Yunus (suicide bomber), Sheikh Shamir, Sheikh Abdullah and Muzaffar Ahmed Rathod, were detained by BSF at Petrapole border, while they were trying to enter India from Karachi in Pakistan via Bangladesh," a CID official told IBNS.
"After they were handed over to us, we had started probe and came to know that they had plans to carry out attack in Srinagar and few of them also had links with 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts," the official added.
Later in 2013, one of them- Sheikh Shamir- fled from probe agency's custody, while he was being taken to Maharashtra for further investigation.
However, nearly ten years after the arrests were made, a local court at Bongaon in North 24 Parganas district sentenced the three terrorists to death on Saturday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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