Fled accused of 2006 Mumbai train blast sentenced to death!

NP NEWS 24 ONLINE- 2006 Mumbai bomb blast which shattered lives of many is a terrifying day now in the books of Indian history. The series of seven bomb blasts in First AC coaches of train took lives of about 200 people and had injured more than 800 people.

12 were accused in this case of being involved in the master mind plan, out of which, 7 were sentenced to lifetime imprisonments and 5 were sentenced to death.

Now, one of the accused, Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem alias Sameer has been sentenced to death by Bengal court in this case.

Sheikh is a militant of Lashkar-a-Taiba and a resident of Aurangabad, Maharashtra and is engineer by profession.

On Saturday morning this decision was taken by the fast track court in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district for his involvement in Mumbai bomb blast and attacks on Indian army camps in Kashmir.

Sheikh managed to escape from the police custody in 2013 when he was being taken for interrogation by police to Maharashtra regarding the train blasts, since then he was being searched until last month when he was finally caught by the police.

Three other accused along with Sameer named Mohammed Abdullah, Mohammad Younis (residents of Karachi, Pakistan) and Mohammad Ahmed (Kashmir) were arrested near India-Bangladesh border in year 2017 by Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers and were sentenced to death.

Again this year, Sheikh was charged of conspiring the assassination  of Prime Minister and some other senior politicians after which the hearings continued and was sentenced to death on 15 December. Sheikh is a fluent English speaker had to fight for his own case during the court trials as no lawyer was ready to take his case.