Delhi court convicts 5 Jaish terrorists

A Delhi court on Monday convicted five Jaish-e-Muhammed terrorists, including two brothers, for waging war against the country and being involved in spreading terror.

Additional Session Judge R K Gauba held Noor Mohammad Tantre, Pervaiz Ahmed Mir, Faroz Ahmed Bhat, Atiq-uz-Zama and Raees-uz-Zama, guilty under the stringent anti-terror law Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).

They were also pronounced guilty under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) relating to waging war against the country and under the Explosives Substance Act.

Convicts Raees and Atiq are brothers of Habibullah, who was gunned down by Delhi Police along with Pakistani national Zahoor in an encounter on August 30, 2003 in the millennium park near Nizamuddin bridge in the national capital.

The court will pronounce the order on quantum of sentence on January 6.

All these five convicts were arrested by the Delhi Police on August 30-31, 2003 following the encounter.

The prosecution had told the court that huge quantity of arms and ammunitions were recovered from the terrorists and they had also intercepted a truck containing explosives in a parking lot in Sadar Bazaar area.

The seized contrabands included hand grenades and one grenade launcher, police had told the court.

Two of these five JeM terrorists were arrested by the Delhi Police from Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh on August 31, 2003 and the investigating agency had also recovered huge quantity of explosives from the duo.