Court holds five Jaish men guilty
A city court convicted five men on charges of terrorism and waging war against the nation. The convicts include two brothers, who were found to be working with the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). The quantum of punishment is likely to be announced on January 6.
Additional sessions judge R.K. Gauba relied on the confessional statements of the accused, besides noting that they “hobnobbed” with each other, and two of them went to Pakistan and stayed there illegally to get training for the purpose.
The court pronounced Noor Mohammad Tantre, Pervaiz Ahmed Mir, Feroz Ahmed Bhat and brothers Atiq-uz-Zama and Raees-uz-Zama, guilty under stringent anti-terror law Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
“The circumstances are of a conclusive and definite nature and tend to point towards the guilt of each of the five accused, consistent only with hypothesis of the guilt totally excluding the possibility of their innocence,” observed the court.
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