nA Special Court in Kochi hearing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases on Wednesday sentenced six of the eight ISIS associates arrested in connection with the 2016 conspiracy case from Kanakamala in Kerala’s Kannur district to various terms of imprisonment and fine.
Manseed Mohammed alias Omar al-Hindi , the first accused, was sentenced to 14 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 15,000 while the second accused Swalith Mohammed of Chelad in Kerala was slapped with a prison term of ten years and a fine of Rs 15,000.
The judge also declared that the first and second accused have been found to be working with terrorist organizations.
While the court acquitted sixth accused NK Jasim for want of evidence, the seventh accused Sajeerr was killed in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan. Rasheed Ali (third accused) was sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 15,000 NK Rasheed , the 4th accused was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and fine of Rs 25,000.
Safvan, the fifth accused was sentenced to a prison term of five years and a fine of Rs 10,000. The eighth accused in the case Moynuddeen was sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000.
The charges against the accused were that they conspired and hammered out a plan to launch series of terrorist attacks all over South India.
They had also drawn out plans to kill many political and social leaders besides targeting institutions of strategic importance.
The NIA also established that they had hatched a plan to kill Jewish tourists who were planning to visit Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
The terrorists, all owing allegiance to the ISIS and working as a module of the same, were arrested from Kanakamala forests of Kannur district in October 2016.
They were taken into custody from the deep forests even as they were holding a “clandestine meeting” giving finishing touches to their operations.