[BUSINESS-STANDARD] Three Lashkar-e-Taiba...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
Lion of Islams, including two Pak nationals tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
by BSF in 2007 from the Indo-Bangladesh border at Petrapole, were today sentenced to death by a court in Bongaon in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district in a case of waging war against the government.
Pak gunnies Mohammed Younus and Abdullah and an Indian, Muzaffar Ahmed Rathod, were sentenced to death by judge Binay Kumar Pathak of Bongaon fast track court-1.
The three have been booked under IPC Sections 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war) and 122 (collecting arms with intention of waging war against the Government of India), CID DIG (Operations) Nishad Pervej told PTI.
Abdullah and Younus are residents of Pakistain's Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and Haripur respectively, while Rathod hailed from Jammu and Kashmire's Anantnag.
They were arrested by BSF while trying to enter India through its international border with Bangladesh at Petrapole on April 4, 2007.
"They had a plan to attack army camps in Jammu and Kashmire, but before they could proceed with their plan they were caught by BSF and handed over to Bangaon cop shoppe," he said.
The probe found that all the four were well-trained in using AK-47 rifle, hand grenades and manufacturing bombs.
Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem alias Sameer from Maharashtra, another LeT Lion of Islam who was also arrested along with them, had managed to flee in 2013 when he was being taken to Mumbai.
During investigation, it was found that Abdullah was a teacher while Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem was an engineer by profession. They were involved in an incident of kaboom in Mumbai.
The three underwent polygraph tests, narco tests and brain mapping during the probe conducted by the state CID, he said.