Bangladeshi sentenced to death
A Bangladeshi national, having links with banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji), was sentenced to death yesterday by a trial court in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for the blast in a passenger train which killed 12 people and injured scores others 11 years ago.
Ubed-ur-Rehman, alias Babu, is the second accused who was awarded death sentence in the case.
Additional Sessions Judge Buddhiram Yadav, who yesterday held Ubed guilty, also slapped a fine of Rs 10.3 lakh on him.
Earlier, another Bangladeshi Huji operative Alamgir, alias Rony, was given death sentence and fined Rs 7 lakh by the court.
Twelve people were killed and scores others were injured when an explosion ripped apart a coach of the Shramjeevi Express train near Jaunpur station in Uttar Pradesh on July 28, 2005.
The bomb, using RDX, had been kept in the compartment's toilet. RDX is a military grade explosive which has been used in several terrorist attacks on Indian targets, including another train bombing in June 2000.
Eyewitnesses had reported that two young men had boarded the train at Jaunpur with a white suitcase. Shortly afterwards, both of them jumped out of the speeding train and fled without the suitcase. A few minutes later, the explosion went off.
Along with Rony and Ubed, two other Bangladeshis -- Nafeequl Biswas and Sohag alias Hilal -- were also accused in the Shramjeevi Express train blast.
Nafeequl and Sohag are in a jail in southern Indian city of Hyderabad in connection with another case.
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