Nationwide Investigation Company Courtroom Sentences ISIS Terrorist To 7 Years Of Prison
He has been given the sentence in a case registered via the NIA. (Representational)
New Delhi:
A unique Nationwide Investigation Company court docket in Delhi on Friday sentenced an ISIS terrorist to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for conspiring to ascertain the proscribed organisation’s base in India via radicalising and recruiting youths thru social media platforms. Imran Khan Pathan used to be convicted via the NIA Particular Courtroom, Patiala Area.
He has been awarded the sentence in a case registered via the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in December 2015 underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code.
The case relates to a “better prison conspiracy hatched via the ISIS to ascertain its base in India via radicalising and recruiting Muslim youths thru other social media platforms”, an NIA reputable stated.
Consequently, radicalised youths expressed their cohesion, allegiance and strengthen to the ISIS and left India to enroll in the terrorist organisation, the reputable stated.
The NIA had filed a charge-sheet after which supplementary charge-sheets towards 17 accused, together with Pathan.
Previous, the court docket had convicted and sentenced 16 of the 17 accused to as much as 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for a conspiracy hatched via ISIS handlers primarily based in Syria and next formation of a gaggle “Junood-ul-Khilafa-fil-Hind” which owed its allegiance to the ISIS.
Pathan used to be in direct contact with ISIS handler Yusuf-Al-Hindi. He had additionally won budget to the song of Rs 50,000 from considered one of Yusuf’s buddies Mudabbir Mushtaq Sheikh, who used to be convicted for making an improvised explosive tool and to additional the actions of the ISIS in India, the reputable stated.
With this judgment, all 17 charge-sheeted accused concerned within the case stand convicted via the particular court docket.
