BANGALORE: The city’s Second Fast Track Court on Monday sentenced six terrorists to life imprisonment for waging a war against the nation. All the six were alleged to have links with terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba and were arrested in 2006 by the city police probing the IISc attack case.Judge S G Revankar, who had convicted the six militants on Saturday, had reserved the quantum of punishment till Monday. The militants, who stood with a blank expression in the court hall, expressed dissatisfaction over the judgment as they were being taken to the escort vehicle.All the accused were convicted under IPC Sections 120 (conspiracy), 121 (waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against the Government of India), 121A (conspiracy to commit offences), Section 3 and 4 of Explosive Substances Act (causing explosion likely to endanger life or property/attempt to cause explosion or for making or keeping explosives with intent to endanger life of property), and 25 and 26 of the Arms Act. The court had cross-examined 73 witnesses, including retired DG&IGP Ajai Kumar Singh, who was Bangalore city police commissioner during the IISc terror attack, and then Home Secretary Bipin Gopalakrishna. However, Special Public Prosecutor A K Seetharam is contemplating appealing to the state government to move a higher court to enhance the punishment to death sentence. Defence counsel K T Venkatesh told reporters after the judgment that they would move the High Court challenging the judgment of the lower court.
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