Special Judge (NIA), Bhopal court Raghuveer Patel sentenced 4 SIMI terrorists were to life imprisonment and 10 years on Friday, after about 9 years these terrorist were sentenced.
The arrested 4 SIMI terrorists were sentenced on Friday, Abu Fazal under section 307 and 468 of the IPC and sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act was sentenced 10 years imprisonment and Rs 10000, Irfan Nagori under section 307 of the IPC and sections 25 and 27 Arms Act was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and fine of Rs 10,000 and Umer Dandoti and Mohammad Sadiq were punished under sections 4 and 5 Explosive Substances Act, section 16 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act with triple life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 each.
In the case, the defense on behalf of the government was done by Rajendra Upadhyay and Nirendra Sharma, Vikram Singh, Special Public Prosecutor.
On December 1, 2013, Abu Fazal and his companions were arrested in Khandwa jail, MP. He escaped by climbing the prison wall.
ATS received information that SIMI terrorists, who were absconding from Khandwa Jail, are coming to the adjoining districts of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
The ATS team reached Sendhwa where in the night of December 23 2013, Abu Faizal and Irfan Nagori and Khalid Ahmed had an encounter with the ATS in which the three men attacked the team with a deadly attack. Pistol and cartridges were recovered from them.
During interrogation, they told that they had given the explosives to Sadiq resident Solapur and when Sadiq was caught and interrogated, he told that the explosive was with Umer Dandoti and from Umer pistol, gelatin rod, dynamite were recovered. During interrogation, he told that other accused were also with him.
ATS presented challan against 9 people in Special Court (NIA), while other accused were absconding. The absconding accused had died in the police encounter.
The prosecution has recorded the evidence of 36 witnesses in support of its case. The court convicted 4 accused and acquitted 4 accused.