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Britain

Five members of Rochdale grooming gang who repeatedly attacked two young girls 'like pieces of meat' in child sex abuse lair dubbed 'The Butcher's flat' two decades ago are jailed for more than 70 years

2023-11-04

The fun jihad of rape.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Five members of a Rochdale grooming gang, who repeatedly attacked two young girls 'like pieces of meat' in lair dubbed 'The Butcher's flat' two decades ago, have been jailed for more than 70 years.

The victims, known only as girl A and girl B, were aged 13 and 14 when they were plied with alcohol, cannabis and Ecstasy pills before being sexually assaulted for around two years by various men, either together or on their own.

Girl A also suffered 'degradation' as she was filmed while blacked out from vodka, being sexually assaulted with a bottle as men laughed. The video was then shared around Rochdale, the court heard. On another occasion, she told Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, she was urinated on by one man as she performed oral sex on another.

The five men - Mohammed Ghani, Jahn Shahid Ghani, Insar Hussain, Ali Razza Hussain Kasmi, and Martin Rhodes - were convicted of sexual offences after a 12-week trial earlier this year.

Passing sentence, Judge Tina Landale told the defendants: 'Your cases, together and individually resulted in appalling abuse of two young women who were children when you offended against them.

'They were both, immature, naive children, who were loved by their families.

'Each girl was a child, ripe for exploitation by unscrupulous older men.

'Your behaviour was highly predatory, controlling and manipulative.

'You each hooked them and used them for your own sexual pleasure.'

The trial heard the victims would often be picked up from outside their schools, still in their uniforms, and sexually assaulted against a school wall, in cars, in public parks, on Saddleworth Moor and in flats and houses in Rochdale. One flat was known as the 'Butcher's flat', as it was above an old butcher's shop. The only item it had in an upstairs bedroom was a bare stained mattress used for the abuse.

Girl A said the abuse began after a chance meeting with Mohammed Ghani, now aged 39, of Bamford Way, Rochdale. He would have sex with the youngster then pass her on to his friends where she was also pressured into multiple sexual encounters with men, one after the other. Girl A described becoming 'accustomed' to giving the men what they wanted sexually, that condoms were rarely used, that they would 'bombard' her with calls and treat her like a 'piece of meat'.

Ghani was jailed for 14 years and six months after being found guilty of five counts of penetrative sex with a child.

His older brother, Jahn Shahid Ghani, 50, of Whitworth Road, Rochdale, described as a 'sex addict' who gave girl A up to 10 Ecstasy tablets at a time before engaging in group sex with her and another woman, was jailed for 20 years for causing a child to engage in sexual activity and four counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child.

Their friend, Insar Hussain, 38, of Bishop Street, Rochdale was jailed for 17 years for rape and two counts of penetrative sex with Girl A.

Ali Razza Hussain Kasmi, 36, of Brotherod Hall Road, Rochdale, was jailed for eight years for rape and two other sexual offences against girl B.

A fifth man, Martin Rhodes, 39, of Dinmore Avenue, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to four counts of penetrative sex with a child, relating to both girl A and girl B and was jailed for 12 years and six months.

All the offences took place between 2002 and 2006.

The allegations only came to light in 2015 after girl A told of being 'beaten and raped' while on a parenting course and police were contacted. She told course workers: 'I was abused daily for six years. I was 12 when they began to abuse me, feeding me alcohol and drugs, abuse me and pass me on to their friends.

'They did as they pleased, they made videos of me to use as blackmail.'

She added that she had to do what they said or she would be 'beaten and raped'.

As a result of what she told the police, they spoke with the second girl, girl B, a childhood friend.

Jurors cleared Ikhlaq Yousef, 38, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, Aftar Khan, 34, of Sparth Bottoms Road, Rochdale, and Mohammed Iqbal, 67, of Gainsborough Drive, Rochdale, of any wrongdoing.

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India-Pakistan

NIA arrests Madurai man for trying to establish Islamic State, Sharia law in India

2021-09-19

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has arrested one persons after conducting searches in Tamil Nadu in connection with the Madurai Hizb-ut-Tahir case.

The NIA conducted searches at two locations in Thiruvarur and Tanjore districts of Tamil Nadu and arrested an accused Bava Bahrudeen.

The case was initially registered by the Thideer Nagar Police Station in Madurai in which Mohammed Iqbal had used his Facebook account "Thoonga Vizhigal Rendu is in Kazimar Street" to upload posts that denigrated a particular community and fomented communal disharmony among different religions in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.

Investigation has revealed that the accused person Mohammed Iqbal conspired with others including Mannai Bava, in the name of Hizb-ut-Tahrir to re-establish Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and implement Sharia globally including in India.

In furtherance of this conspiracy, they had participated in closed door Bayans (meetings) and created multiple accounts on various social media applications to upload posts intended to disclaim and disrupt the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of India.

The conspiracy meetings / closed door Bayans were helmed by Mannai Bava and conducted in Madurai, Erode, Salem, Tanjore districts in Tamil Nadu.

In the searches conducted,30 books, handwritten documents containing incriminating literature related to Hizb-ut-Tahrir and establishment of Islamic State / Khilafat and 3 digital devices were seized.

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India-Pakistan

Police inspector shot dead in targeted attack

2014-01-15

[DAWN] A police officer was bumped off in Orangi Town in a targeted attack on Monday evening, officials said.

Orangi Town SP Chaudhry Asad Ali said that two gunnies targeted Inspector Mohammed Iqbal, 40, at a hardware shop in MPR Colony.

He said the officer sustained two bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival.

The assailants used a 9mm pistol to carry out the shooting, the police said.

They added that the victim was a resident of MPR Colony. He was posted in the investigation wing of the district west police.

The Orangi SP said that some days back the inspector and certain local people had a brawl in the area. However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
he added that investigation was still under way.

With the fresh killing, the number of coppers bumped off in the city during the first fortnight of this year rose to six.

Earlier, two coppers were rubbed out in an attack on a police mobile in Orangi Town. Two other coppers deputed for the security of an Awami National Party leader were killed in an attack in Baldia Town. The fifth victim was bumped off by suspected land grabbers in the Sachal area.

Woman among three killed in Lyari

Three people, including a young woman, were rubbed out in parts of Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
on Monday, police said.

The Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
i police said that Gulshan Bibi, 25, was killed by unknown person in the Shah Beg Lane area.

The body was taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
where her relatives did not allow doctors to carry out a post-mortem examination.

She was a resident of Nayabad, Kalri. It appeared that she was killed on suspicion of being a police 'informer', said Storied Baghdadi SHO Aslam Dahiri. He said that the victim was a close relative of alleged Lyari gangster Zubair alias Wehshi, who was recently killed in an alleged encounter.

The police said the killers did not take away her jewellery.

In the Chakiwara area, two unidentified young men were rubbed out.

The police said that the bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.

There was a dispute between the Kalakot and Napier cop shoppes over jurisdiction.

Lyari SP Shahnawaz said that the victims were in their early-twenties.

They were passing through the Khaliq Juma Hall when two gunnies targeted them from behind and fled.

The young men died before any medical aid could be provided to them, the SP said, adding that the double murder might have linked with the ongoing infighting between rival gangs in Lyari.

Man bumped off

A young man was rubbed out in Gulshan-e-Maymar on Monday, police said.

They said that Abdul Malik, 30, was killed inside his home in Afghan Basti.

Area SHO Samad Khan said that the victim's relatives were trying to bury him but the police got information about the murder and they reached there to stop the burial.

The police took the body in their custody and sent it for a post-mortem examination at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Doctors said that a single bullet hit him in the temple. The SHO said that his wife, Fatima, had allegedly killed him and escaped.

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India-Pakistan

Policeman killed in Malir violence

2013-09-25

[Dawn] A policeman was killed in violence in a Malir locality following the custodial death of a suspect whom the police described as a gangster as well as a member of the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army in the early hours of Monday.

The death of suspect Naveed Baloch in police custody late Sunday night triggered a violent protest in the area, where relatives and area residents blocked the National Highway and attacked the Malir City cop shoppe in the early hours of Monday.

According to area DSP Rao Mohammed Iqbal, the Malir City police placed in durance vile
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
suspect Baloch for allegedly possessing narcotics.

His health deteriorated in the police lock-up and he was being taken for treatment to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre when he died, he added.

As the news of his death reached the area, gunnies surrounded the cop shoppe and threw a grenade on a parked police mobile van. The van driver, Farman Ali, 35, drove the mobile to some distance as he feared that the attackers might torch it. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
two gunnies riding a cycle of violence chased and killed him, the police said.

The victim, who hailed from Swat, was father of five.

Malir City SHO Ali Hasan Sheikh said that a policeman, Asghar, lost his one eye in the attack.

He said seven passers-by were hurt and the attackers also maimed an elder of the area, identified as Baba Ilyas, who tried to control the situation.

The area SHO said that the suspect Baloch was allegedly involved in murder, extortion and narcotics cases.

He claimed that he was a gangster and associated with the banned BLA.

Heavy contingents of the police reached the scene and conducted a targeted operation in several localities following the incident and detained 31 suspects, said SSP-Malir Nasir Aftab.

A post-mortem examination of suspect Baloch was carried out at the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
in the presence of a judicial magistrate.

Hospital sources said that his death was 'unnatural'.

They said that the body bore marks of torture.

However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
the cause of death was reserved till the report of the chemical examination of viscera.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

'Rival families in street brawl'

2012-09-29

Thanx to Tom...

A 71-YEAR-OLD holy man and his 67-year-old wife took part in a violent attack on a rival family in massive street brawl, a court heard.

Nadir Khan, president of the New Medina Mosque, and other members of his family, attacked Mohammed Iqbal Khan and his family on August 7, 2009, Bolton Crown Court was told yesterday.

A jury heard that Nadir Khan's family, referred to as the Marlborough Street group, were armed with baseball bats, cricket bats and a car steering wheel lock.

The 10 defendants are all charged with violent disorder and a variety of other offences, all of which have been denied.

The families attend the same mosque and have a long standing grievance towards each other, the jury was told.

Shahzad Bahadar, known as Razaq, who, the Crown say, was the leader of the Marlborough group, contacted Mohammed Iqbal Khan's brother, Mazhar, and asked them to come and sort out their differences as Ramadan was near and they could start with a clean slate.

But when they arrived, there were 20 to 25 Asian men in the street armed with weapons and violence broke out.

Peter Barr, prosecuting, said: "It is the Crown's case that this is a most serious case of a pre-planned ambush, violent disorder.

"Weapons were carried, weapons were used and people were seriously hurt."

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Iraq

Establishment of Defense System gives passive message - MP

2011-05-06

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Calls by the Iraqi Chief of Military Staff to establish a Regional Defense System, that will include Iran, to protect the region's security will send a passive message, the The Legislature for Iraqs Center Alliance, Mohammed Iqbal, said on Thursday.

Iqbal continued that a Regional Defense System will not prevent foreign interference, but instead will hinder political relations.

No kidding. Establishing a defensive alliance with Iran is inviting the fox into your henhouse.

Any call for the establishment of defense systems with Iran shall give passive and not positive messages, Iqbal said. The establishment of joint defense systems, not only with Iran but with any other state, shall create sensitivity when dealing with it, because of Iraq's involvement in political and military confrontations. Hence joining such defense systems is an undesired issue.

Iraqs Chief of Military Staff, Babakir Zibary, had called during a recent meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Danae, for the establishment of a Regional Defense System, to include Iran, in order to protect the security of the Region. He pointed out that the Region is important and vital, and requires the unification of efforts to achieve stability.

Iraq does not have the political potential to interact within open security frameworks with the neighboring states; hence the linking of the Iraqi security with Irans security needs a delicate study.

The issue does not enter in the authorities of the Chief of Military Staff, but needs a political decision, enjoying support of political blocs, he noted.

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Afghanistan

McChrystal bringing most American Special Ops forces under his direct control

2010-03-16

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, out of concern over continued civilian casualties and disorganization among units in the field.

"What happens is, sometimes at cross-purposes, you got one hand doing one thing and one hand doing the other, both trying to do the right thing but working without a good outcome," General McChrystal said in an interview.

Critics, including Afghan officials, human rights workers and some field commanders of conventional American forces, say that Special Operations forces have been responsible for a large number of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan and operate by their own rules.

Maj. Gen. Zahir Azimi, the chief spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, said that General McChrystal had told Afghan officials he was taking the action because of concern that some American units were not following his orders to make limiting civilian casualties a paramount objective.

"These special forces were not accountable to anyone in the country, but General McChrystal and we carried the burden of the guilt for the mistakes they committed," he said. "Whenever there was some problem with the special forces we didn't know who to go to, it was muddled and unclear who was in charge."

General McChrystal has made reducing civilian casualties a cornerstone of his new counterinsurgency strategy, and his campaign has had some success: last year, civilian deaths attributed to the United States military were cut by 28 percent, although there were 596 civilian deaths attributed to coalition forces, according to United Nations figures. Afghan and United Nations officials blame Special Operations troops for most of those deaths.

"In most of the cases of civilian casualties, special forces are involved," said Mohammed Iqbal Safi, head of the defense committee in the Afghan Parliament, who participated in joint United States-Afghan investigations of civilian casualties last year. "We're always finding out they are not obeying the rules that other forces have to in Afghanistan."

"These forces often operate with little or no accountability and exacerbate the anger and resentment felt by communities," the Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan wrote in its report on protection of civilians for 2009.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistani authorities arrest 3, seize explosives

2008-06-06

Pakistani authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near the capital, officials said Friday.

Senior police officer Rao Mohammed Iqbal told The Associated Press that several suspects, including the three alleged bombers, were arrested in the operation late Thursday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

He provided no details on what the bombers allegedly wanted to target and whether the vehicles had been rigged to detonate. However, two security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media, said the arrested men were suspected of wanting to target "sensitive installations."

The arrests came just days after a suicide car bombing at the Danish Embassy in Islamabad killed six people.

Authorities seized three vehicles with more than 2,200 pounds of explosives, Iqbal said. Iqbal, deputy inspector-general of Rawalpindi police, said an official statement on the arrests would be issued later Friday.

Pakistan's Geo TV news network quoted Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik as saying a total of six people, including the three bombers, were captured.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan army occupies Swat Valley

2008-02-27

Hardcore militants who seized Pakistan's most scenic valley are still holed up in its snowy heights, three months after President Pervez Musharraf sent in the army to show his resolve against spreading Islamic extremism.

Down below, life in the towns that dot the Swat Valley has returned to something approaching normality. But bombings persist and Mullah Fazlullah, the firebrand cleric behind last year's Taliban-style uprising, remains at large.

Earlier Pakistani security forces have arrested more than 440 Islamic "terrorists", including 60 would-be suicide bombers, in the last three months, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.

The announcement comes amid a wave of violence blamed on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, including a suicide bombing near the Pakistani military headquarters on Monday that killed the army's surgeon general. "Law enforcement and intelligence agencies have arrested 442 terrorists and militants during the past three months," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told reporters. Large quantities of explosives, weapons, suicide jackets and hand grenades were seized from the suspects, Cheema said.

In November, the army launched one of its biggest operations since Pakistan threw its support behind the US-led war against terrorism six years ago. On Monday, the military ferried journalists by helicopter to three mountaintop positions to show the territory its more than 10,000-strong force has retaken. "About 90 percent of the area has been cleared of the (militants), and only about 10 percent, pockets of resistance, are remaining," said army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas. "They have taken to the heights. Hopefully those areas will be taken back soon."

Fazlullah leads a banned extremist group that sent reinforcements for the Taliban when US forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001. In Swat, he used his own FM radio station to preach a harsh brand of Islam and won a large local following by pressing for the introduction of Islamic law in the poorly policed region. He took up arms in July, calling for holy war against the government, and used his thousands of followers to seize a string of towns, scattering outgunned police and erecting "Taliban station" signboards outside former police stations.

The militant takeover was a shocking reflection of how Musharraf's government had lost control of tracts of the conservative northwest. Swat, formerly known as a tourist retreat and dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia" for its glorious Alpine scenery, became a no-go zone. Officials accused Fazlullah's long-haired, bearded followers of imposing a reign of terror, shuttering schools for girls and beheading locals who opposed them. They suspect that the militants, apparently supported by some foreign fighters with suspected links to al-Qaeda, were positioning themselves to block the Karakorum Highway that links Pakistan and China.

Maj. Gen. Nasser Janjua, commander of the military operation, said troops backed by helicopter gunships and artillery took control of key militant positions and chased the fleeing fighters, mostly locals. He claimed that some shaved their beards and were nabbed as they tried to escape. At one mosque, troops found concealed in the ceiling a horde of chemicals, explosives and other equipment for making bombs. Elsewhere, they found and destroyed a jeep packed with explosives, apparently primed for a suicide attack.

In all, the operation has left at least 11 soldiers, 19 civilians and about 230 militants dead, Janjua said. But he said the army had had little success in tracking the militant leaders, including Fazlullah, thought to be hiding somewhere in Swat or a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

While residents, at least in the valley's main town of Mingora, say they now feel more secure, the threat of attack persists. Janjua said a nighttime curfew was still necessary because of fears of targeted killings by militants of government supporters.

At Uchrai Sar, where a 600-strong army deployment is based on a spectacular mountain ridge at the northwestern end of the Swat Valley, machine-gunners sit in dry stone bunkers scattered amid the pine forest. The camp lies near two of the four remaining "hotspots" in the valley, Beha and Piochar, where a hardcore of a few dozen militants are believed to have fled after they were dislodged in early January.

Battalion commander, Lt Col Nadir Hussain, said there had been no major attacks on security forces for the past two months in the area, and elections here passed off peacefully last week. But in a reminder of the continuing threat, he pointed to a mountainside where a roadside bomb hit a wedding party just a mile away on Friday, killing 12 people.

At another key mountaintop position, Shangla, the local police chief recalled how in November, his 250 officers had escaped their 10 posts in the district for fear they would be "captured and slaughtered" by Fazlullah's men. "The militants came in the hundreds. It was impossible for 20 men to defend the posts and the public," Mohammed Iqbal said. "We are trained for fighting crime, not guerrilla war and insurgency."

The police force has been doubled and given new equipment but officials say the battle against Fazlullah can only be won if his fighters can find neither sanctuary nor recruits among locals. The army relies on villagers for intelligence. The locals "have not started fighting (the militants) yet, but at least they have started resenting them, telling them, 'Please go away,'" Janjua said.

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India-Pakistan

Blast in Multan kills 3 cops, injures 9 including ATC judge

2007-03-03

MULTAN: An anti-terrorist judge was wounded and three policemen were killed when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a bicycle exploded in Multan on Friday, said police. Judge Bashir Ahmed Bhatti, who often hears cases against Islamic militants suspected terrorists, was among nine people injured by the blast around 100 metres away from the court building at around 8:50am, said district police chief Munir Ahmed Chishti. APP reported that 11 people were injured in the attack.

AP quoted the city police chief as saying that Bhatti was travelling to his court when the bomb went off. The blast wrecked the front end of the car believed to be the judges and left blood stains on the seats and the ground, said an AFP reporter from the scene of the attack. A police van was almost destroyed.

A bomb of high intensity was planted on a bicycle in front of a basketball stadium near the court, and it exploded as the car of the special anti-terrorism court judge passed."

A bomb of high intensity was planted on a bicycle in front of a basketball stadium near the court, and it exploded as the car of the special anti-terrorism court judge passed. It was a targeted attack, said Chishti, ruling out the possibility of a suicide attack. Two police gunmen died on the spot, and another nine people were injured: the judge, six policemen and two bystanders, said Chishti. He declined to say who might have been behind the attack.

An injured policeman later died at a local hospital, said doctor Fahim Javed at Nishtar Hospital, bringing the death toll to three. He said that the three wounded policemen were in critical condition. He identified two of the three people who died as Mohammed Iqbal and Ijaz Ahmed. AP quoted Javed as saying that Bhatti was in critical condition, but APP quoted the Nishtar Hospital medical superintendent as saying that the judges condition was stable.

Police cordoned off the area following the attack, and bomb disposal squad officers collected evidence and fragments of the bomb. It was a locally made high-intensity device, said a bomb disposal officer. The bomb was thought to have been detonated by remote control, said regional police chief Mohammad Ali. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Mirza Mohammed Ali, another police officer, said Bhatti was hearing the case of Malik Ishaq, a leader of the outlawed Sunni Muslim militant group, Sipah-e-Sihaba, which is implicated in sectarian attacks against Shias. Ishaq was arrested two years ago, and was accused of killing several Shias, said Mohammed Ali, although he had no details of the charges against the suspect. Chishti said that Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had announced that Rs 500,000 would be given as financial assistance to the families of the dead policemen.

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India-Pakistan

Mumbai blasts: prosecution seeks death sentence for 44

2007-02-15

Mumbai: The prosecution on Thursday completed arguments on the quantum of sentence in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case and pleaded for death sentence for 44. It, however, submitted that Rubina Memon, Somnath Thapa and Imitiaz Gawte, be spared of death sentence as Thapa and Gawte were ill and Rubina was a woman.

CBI prosecutor N. Natarajan sought maximum punishment for the rest of the accused after dividing them in to three groups, as per the sections under which they were found guilty.

The 44 were found guilty under 120-b (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code or Section 3 (2) (i) (terrorist act resulting in death) of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act. Mr. Natarajan said the country had been facing terrorism for the last 20 years and the accused must be given maximum punishment as prescribed in relevant enactments, as this would prove to be a "deterrent." He cited several Supreme Court judgments and sought maximum punishment for the accused in the remaining two groups.

The second group includes accused convicted under Section 3(3) (terrorist activities not resulting in death) of the TADA Act and face a maximum of life imprisonment.

However, he prayed for lesser sentence for the two women in the group, Mubina Bhiwandiwala and Zaibunissa Qazi.

The third group comprises accused facing conviction under the Arms Act and Customs Act. It includes actor Sanjay Dutt.

Most of the accused were present in the court. Those who face death sentence include three brothers of prime accused Tiger Memon Yakub, Essa and Yusuf, as well as Mohammed Shoaib Ghansar, Asgar Yusuf Mukadam, Shahnawaz Qureshi, Abdul Gani Ismail Turk, Parvez Nazir Shaikh, Mohammed Iqbal Shaikh, Nasim Bharmare, Mustaq Tarani, Mohammed Farooq Pawale, Bashir Ahmed Usman Gani, Zakir Hussain Noor, Abdul Akhtar Khan, Firoze Amani Malik, Sakim Rahim Shaikh and Moin Qureshi and Eijaz Pathan.

The court fixed February 23 for statement by defence counsel on the quantum of sentence.

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India-Pakistan

Two LeT men held, one Hizb terrorist surrenders

2007-02-13

Security forces on Monday arrested two Lashkar-e-Taiba couriers in Budgam district in central Kashmir, while a Hizbul Mujahideen commander of Lolab in Kupwara district surrendered before Jammu & Kashmir police. A police spokesman said that cops apprehended the two Lashkar terrorists in Budgam district. The men were identified as as Hilal Ahmed Mir and Mohammed Iqbal Najar both from Sopore town of Baramulla district. "The arrested men were involved in giving logistics support to terrorists especially foreigners," said the spokesman, adding that both were also acting as couriers.

Another Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist identified as Mohammed Asif Bhat of Lolab Kupwara surrendered before the district police in Budgam, the spokesman said. Asif was a Hizb battalion commander for Lolab in Kupwara. Two AK 47 rifles, six magazines, 160 rounds, one hand grenade and one Kenwood wireless set have been recovered from all the three men.

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