Citing defects in the investigation that struck at “the root of the case”, the Allahabad High Court Wednesday set aside a trial court order of capital punishment to four men and a life term to another over the terror attack on a CRPF camp in UP’s Rampur in 2007, and acquitted the five, including two Pakistani nationals, in the main case related to the incident.

The High Court, however, sentenced the five to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment under Section 25 (1-A) of the Arms Act, 1959, related mainly to possession, and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each. The High Court passed the order while hearing an appeal filed by the five, who are currently lodged in the Bareilly Central Jail, against the judgment passed by the Sessions Court in Rampur.

In 2019, the Sessions Court had sentenced Moha

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