Mumbai: On Saturday morning Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem alias Sameer, an resident of Aurangabad, Maharashtra, was convicted to death by the fast track court at Bongaon in Bengals’s North Parganas district for his part in the Mumbai train blast in 2006 and attack on Indian army camps in Kashmir.
Nayeem ran from the custody in 2013 while he was being tried. He was again caught last month. Nayeem is an engineer by profession.
There were three associates along with Nayeem, Mohammed Younis and Mohammed Abdullah, both were the residents of Karachi, Pakistan, whereas Mohammad Muzaffar Ahmed is a resident of Anantnag in Kashmir. They all were arrested by Border Security Force (BSF) near the India-Bangladesh border in Bongoan on April 4, 2017 while trying to creep into India.
Nayeem fled from police custody in 2013 when he was being taken to Maharashtra for interrogation in connection with the train blast. The other three were sentenced to death by the fast track court in Bongaon in January 2017.
According to Nishad Parvez, DIG, CID (operations), the LeT men were charged under section 120B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war) and 122 (collecting arms with intention to wage war against the state) of the IPC, among other sections.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) grabbed Nayeem on October 10 this year. The Bongaon court sentenced him to death on Saturday.
Nayeem, who speaks plain English, had to demand his case at the Bongayan Fast Track Court because no lawyer was ready to represent him in the fresh trial.
The LeT militants confessed during interrogation that they planned attacks on army camps in Kashmir said the CID officer.
Fake voter ID cards, mobile SIM cards, Indian maps and Indian currency were grasped from their custody.
