2 from Shivamogga IS module, whose handler is suspected to be linked to Red Fort blast, awarded 6 years’ jail for 2022 terror plot

A special court in Bengaluru sentenced two persons belonging to the Shivamogga module of a nascent terror group to six years’ imprisonment on Friday after they pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. The handler of this module is suspected to be linked to the Kashmir doctors’ module behind the November 10 blast near the Red Fort in Delhi.

The two accused, Zabiulla alias Jabiulla alias Mohammed Zabiulla alias Charbi, 34, and Nadeem Faizal, 29, both residents of Shivamogga, were sentenced in the case probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). They were arrested in 2022.

A group of 10 others who were part of the module – including the accused in last year’s March 1 Bengaluru Rameshwaram Cafe blast case Abdul Matheen Taha, 32, Mussavir Hussain Shazib, 32, and the accused in the 2022