Couple among 4 awarded 10-year RI by Raipur court for terror financing
Raipur Nov 24 PTI A court in Chhattisgarhs Raipur on Wednesday sentenced four persons including a couple linked to banned groups SIMI and Indian Mujahideen to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment RI for channeling funds for terror activities observing their act intended to disrupt sovereignty and integrity of IndiaAdditional District and Session Judge IV Ajay Singh Rajput convicted the four – Dheeraj Sao 21 Pappu Mandal Jubair Hussain 42 and his wife Ayesha Bano 39 – under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UAPA an anti-terror law and acquitted one personThe court observed Keeping in view the prosecution evidence in the case and the entire circumstances in which the incident took place it appears that the act of the accused is intended to disrupt sovereignty and integrity of India which does not seem lawful to be lenient towards them The judge awarded 10-year RI each under separate sections of the UAPA to the convicts while Sao was also sentenced to one year rigorous jail term under section 417 of the IPC punishment for cheating Public Prosecutor KK Shukla saidAll the punishment will run concurrently he addedThe court acquitted another accused Sukhen Haldar 28 a native of West Bengal and ordered his release if he is not required in other cases Shukla saidIn December 2013 Sao a resident of Jamui in Bihar who ran a roadside eatery in Transport Nagar under Khamtarai police station limits of Raipur was nabbed by a team of the states Anti-Terrorist Squad ATS based on specific inputs about his links with terror modules he saidSao was channeling funds which he received from a Pakistan national named Khalid to people linked with terror outfits Indian MujahideenSIMI through an account maintained with a bank in Raipur as well as in Jamui Shukla saidHaldar was later arrested in the case he saidAccording to the prosecution Sao had deposited cash in the bank accounts of SIMI and IM operatives Jubair Hussain and Ayesha Bano in Mangaluru Karnataka through his own accountBano and Hussain were later arrested by a team of the Bihar ATS from Mangaluru on charges of terror funding he addedNotably before the arrest of Sao the Chhattisgarh police in November 2013 had busted a module of the SIMI by arresting at least 16 operatives of the outift from Raipur PTI COR TKP RSY RSY
Raipur Nov 24 PTI A court in Chhattisgarhs Raipur on Wednesday sentenced four persons including a couple linked to banned groups SIMI and Indian Mujahideen to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment RI for channeling funds for terror activities observing their act intended to disrupt sovereignty and integrity of IndiaAdditional District and Session Judge IV Ajay Singh Rajput convicted the four – Dheeraj Sao 21 Pappu Mandal Jubair Hussain 42 and his wife Ayesha Bano 39 – under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UAPA an anti-terror law and acquitted one personThe court observed Keeping in view the prosecution evidence in the case and the entire circumstances in which the incident took place it appears that the act of the accused is intended to disrupt sovereignty and integrity of India which does not seem lawful to be lenient towards them The judge awarded 10-year RI each under separate sections of the UAPA to the convicts while Sao was also sentenced to one year rigorous jail term under section 417 of the IPC punishment for cheating Public Prosecutor KK Shukla saidAll the punishment will run concurrently he addedThe court acquitted another accused Sukhen Haldar 28 a native of West Bengal and ordered his release if he is not required in other cases Shukla saidIn December 2013 Sao a resident of Jamui in Bihar who ran a roadside eatery in Transport Nagar under Khamtarai police station limits of Raipur was nabbed by a team of the states Anti-Terrorist Squad ATS based on specific inputs about his links with terror modules he saidSao was channeling funds which he received from a Pakistan national named Khalid to people linked with terror outfits Indian MujahideenSIMI through an account maintained with a bank in Raipur as well as in Jamui Shukla saidHaldar was later arrested in the case he saidAccording to the prosecution Sao had deposited cash in the bank accounts of SIMI and IM operatives Jubair Hussain and Ayesha Bano in Mangaluru Karnataka through his own accountBano and Hussain were later arrested by a team of the Bihar ATS from Mangaluru on charges of terror funding he addedNotably before the arrest of Sao the Chhattisgarh police in November 2013 had busted a module of the SIMI by arresting at least 16 operatives of the outift from Raipur PTI COR TKP RSY RSY
