Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem alias Sameer, a resident of Aurangabad, Maharashtra, was sentenced to death by the fast track court at Bongaon in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Saturday morning for his role in the Mumbai train blasts in 2006 and attacks on Indian army camps in Kashmir. The other three were sentenced to death by the fast track court in Bongaon in January 2017. According to Nishad Parvez, DIG, CID (operations), the LeT men were charged under section 120B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war) and 122 (collecting arms with intention to wage war against the state) of the IPC, among other sections. On Saturday, he was sentenced to death by the Bongaon court. Nayeem, who speaks fluent English, had to plead his own case at the Bongaon fast track court as no lawyer was ready to represent him in the fresh trial.

Source: Hindustan Times December 16, 2018 02:26 UTC