Hyd blast: Telangana HC upholds death penalty verdict

THE SPECIAL COURT FOR NIA CASES HERE AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO FIVE CONVICTS TREATING IT AS A RAREST OF THE RARE CASE

- Agencies

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Tuesday upheld a trial court's verdict awarding death penalty to five senior operatives of banned terror outfit, Indian Mujahideen, involved in a bomb blast that left 18 people killed and 131 injured in 2013.

A bench of justice K Lakshman and justice P Sree Sudha dismissed the criminal revision appeal filed by the IM operatives while upholding the NIA court's judgment.

"Confirming the judgment of the trial court," the bench said.

On December 13, 2016, the NIA court convicted the five members, including IM co-founder Mohd Ahmed Sidibapa alias Yasin Bhatkal, Pakistani national Zia-ur-Rahman alias Waqas, Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, Tahaseen Akhtar alias Monu and Ajaz Shaikh.