LUCKNOW: A particular NIA court docket in Lucknow on Thursday sentenced Mohammad Waliullah, the prime accused going through death penalty in the 2006 Varanasi serial blast case, to life imprisonment in another matter involving possession of explosives.
Particular decide VS Tripathi had on Wednesday held him responsible of possessing half kg RDX, detonator, a foreign-made pistol and stay cartridges, and had reserved the order on quantum of punishment.
The court docket additionally imposed a superb of Rs 20,000 on him.
In his order, the NIA court docket decide stated THAT Waliullah had been handed capital punishment in reference to the Sankat Mochan temple blast, which itself confirmed that he was a dreaded offender and therefore deserved most punishment in the current case, too.
W aliullah’s counsel pleaded for a lesser sentence, saying he had already spent 17 years in jail and had an previous mom, spouse and a son and a daughter to take care of. Opposing the plea, the state counsel stated he was a dreaded prison and had he not been arrested in Lucknow, he would have succeeded in executing blasts in town, too. In response to state lawyer MK Singh, Waliullah, a resident of Phoolpur in Prayagraj, was arrested in Gosaiganj police circle in Lucknow by Varanasi police on June 5, 2006.
LUCKNOW: The court docket was informed that on the time of his arrest, he was discovered in possession of RDX and the arms and ammunition. Later, he was additionally booked in the Sankat Mochan case, in which he was sentenced to death by a Ghaziabad court docket on June 6, 2022. At the very least 18 folks have been killed and over a 100 wounded in the dual blasts on the Sankat Mochan temple and the Varanasi Cantonment railway station inside a span of quarter-hour on March 7, 2006.
Particular decide VS Tripathi had on Wednesday held him responsible of possessing half kg RDX, detonator, a foreign-made pistol and stay cartridges, and had reserved the order on quantum of punishment.
The court docket additionally imposed a superb of Rs 20,000 on him.
In his order, the NIA court docket decide stated THAT Waliullah had been handed capital punishment in reference to the Sankat Mochan temple blast, which itself confirmed that he was a dreaded offender and therefore deserved most punishment in the current case, too.
W aliullah’s counsel pleaded for a lesser sentence, saying he had already spent 17 years in jail and had an previous mom, spouse and a son and a daughter to take care of. Opposing the plea, the state counsel stated he was a dreaded prison and had he not been arrested in Lucknow, he would have succeeded in executing blasts in town, too. In response to state lawyer MK Singh, Waliullah, a resident of Phoolpur in Prayagraj, was arrested in Gosaiganj police circle in Lucknow by Varanasi police on June 5, 2006.
LUCKNOW: The court docket was informed that on the time of his arrest, he was discovered in possession of RDX and the arms and ammunition. Later, he was additionally booked in the Sankat Mochan case, in which he was sentenced to death by a Ghaziabad court docket on June 6, 2022. At the very least 18 folks have been killed and over a 100 wounded in the dual blasts on the Sankat Mochan temple and the Varanasi Cantonment railway station inside a span of quarter-hour on March 7, 2006.