Five alleged members of banned extremist organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh were on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kolkata court for their role in a 2016 plot to carry out bomb attacks and other subversive activities in India, The Indian Express reported.

Two of those sentenced to life terms, Anwar Hossain Faruque and Mohammad Rubel, are Bangladeshi nationals from Jamalpur.

The others are Maulana Yusuf Sheikh from West Bengal’s Burdwan, and Mohammad Sahidul Islam and Jabirul Islam from Assam.

The verdict was delivered by special judge Rohan Sinha after a trial based on an investigation by the Kolkata Police Special Task Force, The Indian Express reported.

The police had registered the case in 2016 following intelligence on suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen

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