Kolkata: Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including two Pakistani nationals arrested by BSF in 2007 from the Indo-Bangladesh border at Petrapole, were on Saturday sentenced to death by a court in Bongaon in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district in a case of waging war against the government.
Pakistani militants Mohammed Younus and Abdullah and an Indian, Muzaffar Ahmed Rathod, were sentenced to death by judge Binay Kumar Pathak of Bongaon fast track court-1. The three have been booked under IPC Sections 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war) and 122 (collecting arms with intention of waging war against the Government of India), CID DIG (Operations) Nishad Pervej told PTI. Abdullah and Younus are residents of Pakistan’s Karachi and Haripur respectively, while Rathod hailed from Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag.
They were arrested by BSF while trying to enter India through its international border with Bangladesh at Petrapole on April 4, 2007.The probe found that all the four were well-trained in using AK-47 rifle, hand grenades and manufacturing bombs. (PTI)
