Bodh Gaya blast: Life in jail for 3, 10 yrs for 5

PATNA: A special NIA court awarded life imprisonment on Friday to three members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and 10 years' rigorous imprisonment to five other members of the same terror outfit for their involvement in the 2018 Bodh Gaya blast case. The three awarded life terms are Mohammad Paigambar Sheikh, Ahmad Ali, alias Kalu, and Nur Alam Momin.
The special court of ADJ-XV Gurvinder Singh Malhotra also sentenced Dilawar Hossain, Abdul Karim, Mustafizur Rehman, Arif Hussain and Mohammad Adil Sheikh to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. All the convicts are from Murshidabad, West Bengal.
Appearing for NIA, special public prosecutor Lallan Prasad Sinha and additional public prosecutor Pramod Kumar had left it to the court to decide the fate of the convicted terrorists as they had already confessed their involvement in the terror act. The court had convicted them on December 10 after accepting their confessional petitions. The ninth accused, Mohammad Jehidul Islam, is still facing trial in the case.