Burdwan Blast Case: NIA Court in Kolkata Sentences Four Jamat-ul-Mujaheedin for Seven Years
News 18A special NIA court here has sentenced four militants of the banned Jamat-ul-Mujaheedin of Bangladesh terror group to seven years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each for their involvement in the Burdwan blast case of 2014. Ziaul Hoque, Motiur Rahaman, Mohammad Yusuf and Jahirul Sheikh have been jailed for seven years and fined Rs 5,000 by the court which delivered the judgement on Tuesday, an NIA spokesperson said. On October 2, 2014, a powerful blast caused by an improvised explosive devise took place at the first floor of a rented house in the busy Khagragarh locality of West Bengal’s Burdwan. Earlier on August 30 last year, as many as 19 accused and on January 15 last year five accused were convicted and sentenced for various terms by the NIA special court.