Delhi court docket convicted 9 operatives of ISIS for hatching a legal conspiracy. (Representational)
New Delhi:
A Delhi court docket on Friday convicted 9 operatives of Islamic terror outfit ISIS for hatching a legal conspiracy to ascertain its base in India by recruiting Muslim youths by totally different social media platforms to hold out acts of terrorism within the nation.
Particular Decide Parveen Singh convicted accused Abu Anas, Nafees Khan, Najmul Huda, Mohd Afzal, Suhail Ahamed, Obedullah Khan, Mohd Aleem, Mufti Abdul Sami Qasmi and Amjad Khan after they pleaded responsible.
Their advocate Qausar Khan mentioned the court docket convicted them below sections 120B (legal conspiracy) of the IPC, and varied sections of the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act and Explosive Substances Act.
The choose accepted their utility pleading responsible and posted the matter for September 22, when he’ll hear the arguments on their quantum of sentence.
On the following date of listening to, the court docket may even hear arguments on the quantum of sentence of six others – Mudabbir Mushtaq Sheikh, Mohammad Shareef Moinudeen Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Hussain Khan, Syed Mujahid and Mohammad Azhar Khan – who have been earlier convicted after they pleaded responsible.
The court docket have directed the jail authorities to file stories concerning their conduct and requested the defence counsel to tell about their background and household’s situation.
Whereas pleading responsible, the accused instructed the court docket that they have been “remorseful for the acts alleged towards them”, and undertook to not bask in related acts and actions in future.
Advocate Khan has additional instructed the court docket that the accused wished to return to the mainstream society and rehabilitate themselves.
“The accused are having clear antecedents, even their conduct in jail are passable and there’s nothing antagonistic towards them… the accused are pleading responsible voluntarily with none stress, menace, coercion, inducement or undue affect and he that he understands the results,” their plea had mentioned.
The advocate mentioned although the utmost punishment for the offences wherein the accused individuals are convicted after pleading responsible is life imprisonment, the court docket could think about all different facets talked about earlier than it whereas announcing quantum of punishment.
The case, registered by the NIA on December 9, 2015 below related sections of the IPC and the UA(P) Act, pertains to the bigger legal conspiracy hatched by the ISIS to ascertain its base in India by recruiting Muslim youths for the proscribed terror group by totally different social media platforms, the NIA mentioned.
The accused had shaped Junood-ul-Khilafa-Fil-Hind organisation, in search of to ascertain a caliphate in India and pledging allegiance to ISIS, to recruit Muslim youths to work for the ISIS and commit acts of terrorism in India on the behest of Syria-based Yusuf-Al-Hindi who’s purportedly the media chief of ISIS, the NIA mentioned.
The NIA filed chargesheets towards the accused individuals in 2016-2017.
This case was first of its variety wherein terrorist conspiracy of this magnitude involving on-line radicalisation was effected on cyber area within the aftermath of declaration of Islamic Caliphate by ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014, the NIA had mentioned.
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