The sessions court at Ankleshwar in Gujarat's Bharuch district has handed imprisonment "till last breath" to two ISIS-linked terrorists, arrested in 2017, for planning "lone-wolf" attacks and recruiting radicalised youths for terror activities.
The court of additional sessions judge, V.J. Kalotra, sentenced Ubed Ahmed Mirza and Mohammad Kasim Stimberwala to imprisonment till their "last breath", government pleader Paresh Pandya said on Saturday.
The duo, both operatives of Islamic State (IS), were arrested in October 2017 by the Gujarat ATS and were charged under Indian Penal Code sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 121-A (sedition) and 125 (waging war against any Asiatic power in alliance with India), apart from sections 17, 18, 19 and 38 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
