Five Indian Mujahideen operatives, including it’s co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, have been sentenced to death by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Monday for their involvement in February 2013 Hyderabad blasts, PTI reported.
18 people were killed and 131 injured in the twin bomb blasts Hyderabad bomb blast. Yasin Bhatkal, Zia-ur-Rehman alias Waqas, Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, Tahaseen Akhtar and Aijaz Sheikh, and IM founder Riyaz Bhatkal were convicted by the NIA court in Cherlapally Central Prison on December 13.
“The minimum sentence they could receive is a life term, and the maximum, capital punishment. On Monday next, we will seek the maximum punishment for murder and waging war against the country — the death sentence,” the NIA special public prosecutor K Surender Rao was quoted as saying after their conviction.
Bhatkal, who was arrested from Bihar in 2015, is also accused in a blast outside the Bangalore cricket stadium.
