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VARANASI: A court in UP’s Jaunpur convicted on Friday two operatives of the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) in a 2005 train blast in which 14 people died and 61 were injured. Two others in the Shramjeevi train blast case were given death sentences in 2016.
The quantum of punishment for Hilal alias Hilaluddin and Nafikul Biswas will be pronounced on January 2.Both are Bangladeshi residents and are at present lodged in Hyderabad jail in another case. They were produced before the Jaunpur court on Friday. The duo’s final hearings dragged six years due to several adjournments.
The bomb, using RDX, had been kept in the general coach. While Hilal was found guilty of planting the bomb, Nafikul was accused of helping him in the blast.
Eyewitnesses had reported that two young men boarded the train with a white suitcase. Shortly afterwards, both had jumped out of the moving train and fled without their suitcase. A few minutes later, the explosion shook the train.
In all, six people, all Bangladeshi nationals, were accused in the case. Roni alias Alamgir and Obaidur Rahman, convicted in 2016 for assembling the bomb, have appealed their death sentences in the Allahabad HC. Two others, Ghulam Razdani alias Yahya and Sayeed, died during the pendency of the case.
The quantum of punishment for Hilal alias Hilaluddin and Nafikul Biswas will be pronounced on January 2.Both are Bangladeshi residents and are at present lodged in Hyderabad jail in another case. They were produced before the Jaunpur court on Friday. The duo’s final hearings dragged six years due to several adjournments.
The bomb, using RDX, had been kept in the general coach. While Hilal was found guilty of planting the bomb, Nafikul was accused of helping him in the blast.
Eyewitnesses had reported that two young men boarded the train with a white suitcase. Shortly afterwards, both had jumped out of the moving train and fled without their suitcase. A few minutes later, the explosion shook the train.
In all, six people, all Bangladeshi nationals, were accused in the case. Roni alias Alamgir and Obaidur Rahman, convicted in 2016 for assembling the bomb, have appealed their death sentences in the Allahabad HC. Two others, Ghulam Razdani alias Yahya and Sayeed, died during the pendency of the case.
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