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The Times of India
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Rajiv Kalkod | TNN

Bengaluru engineering student gets 5-year jail for celebrating Pulwama killings on Facebook

BENGALURU: A special court here on Monday held a 23-year-old engineering student guilty of celebrating on Facebook the Pulwama suicide bombing of 2019 and awarded him five years’ simple imprisonment, besides a fine of Rs 25,000.

Any failure on the part of the convict to pay the fine, Faiz Rasheed, a resident of Bengaluru’s Kacharakanahalli, will result in six more months of imprisonment, said Judge CM Gangadhara of the special court for National Investigation Agency and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) cases.

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