Bengaluru: Youth gets 5-year jail term for celebrating Pulwama attack

Team Udayavani, Nov 1, 2022, 10:06 AM IST

A special court in Bengaluru sentenced a youth to five years imprisonment for his Facebook posts about the 2019 Pulwama terrorist attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy.

Police had arrested Faiz Rasheed, who was a third-semester engineering student for supporting the suicide bomber terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans on February 14, 2019 in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama.

Netizens were outraged by his Facebook posts and subsequently, an FIR was registered against him leading to his arrest in February 2019. His phone was seized and police got it investigated by a forensic science lab.

The chargesheet has been filed under Indian Penal Code sections (IPC) 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion), 124A (sedition) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Faiz has been in jail since the day of his arrest after his bail applications were rejected.

Following the Pulwama attack, the Indian Air Force on February 26 carried out multiple aerial strikes at JeM terror camps in Pakistan’s Balakot, killing a “large number” of terrorists and destroying their infrastructure.

The MHA in their notification issued on April 11, 2022, designated Jaish-e-Mohammad’s Mohiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir, a key conspirator of the 2019 terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy at Pulwama. The Central Government believes that Mohiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir is involved in terrorism and Mohiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir should be notified as a terrorist under the UAPA Act, notification reads further.

With ANI inputs