Special CBI court in Gujarat awards 10 years jail term to terrorist Aftab Ansari in Santalpur arms seizure case

Ahmedabad:

A special CBI court today awarded 10 years of jail term to dreaded terrorist and death sentence convict of American Centre Attack case of Kolkata in connection with another case pertaining to recovery of huge cache of arms and explosives from Santalpur area of Patan district in North Gujarat.

Aftab Ansari alias Farhan Ali, a native of Varansi district in UP, and a member of terror outfits like Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) was deported from Dubai in the year 2002 (on January 22 the Kolkata incident took place in which 4 policemen died) and arrested.

He was also wanted in many other cases including the recovery of a huge cache of arms and ammunition by CBI from Santalpur in Patan in October 2001. The consignment included two AK 56 rifles,live cartridges,two pistols,two magazines,10 detonators,timer device,14 kg RDX and 4 kg of other explosive material. Aftab had funded it. These were to be used for terror incidents.

The special CBI court also imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on him in this case.

He has a very long criminal record. He had already been awarded death sentence in American center case and life term in the abduction of the shoe baron Partho Roy Burman case which took place on the 25th of July, 2001. He was also wanted in the Jeweler Bhaskar Parekh abduction case of Rajkot.

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