India    04-Feb-2008

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Patiala awarded life sentences to three hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 to Kandahar in Afghanistan on December 24, 1999. Judge Inderjit Singh Walia sentenced the three, Abdul Latif, Dalip Kumar and Yusuf Nepali, on charges of murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and wrongful confinement of passengers, forging documents.

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India    13-Feb-2008

The BKI militants, arrested in connection with the bomb blast at a cinema hall in Ludhiana in Punjab on October 14, 2007, have told the investigators that they had approached the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) for the supply of arms and ammunition. During their interrogation, the militants also told that few Sikh youths had been tasked to kill political leaders including Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir, President of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front M. S. Bitta and former State Director General of Police K P. S. Gill. These youths were being trained by Pakistan's external intelligence agency, the ISI, in the handling of arms and ammunition including fabricating of improvised explosive devices.

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India    15-Feb-2008

Three KZF militants were sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by a court in the national capital New Delhi for a bomb blast in the Kailash Hotel in the Paharganj area on March 13, 2000, in which three persons were wounded. The court sentenced the KZF militants, Sukhdev Singh, Satbir Singh, and Purushottam Singh, after holding them guilty for entering into a conspiracy to wage war against the country.

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