Mohd Abdur Rehman the Al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) operative has been sentenced to 7 years and five months of rigorous imprisonment on Tuesday.
Besides pronouncing the quantum of punishment, the court has also slapped Rs 25,000 fine on the convict.
Three other Al-Qaeda operatives – Mohd Asif, Zafar Masood and Abdul Sami, whom the court had convicted for plotting terrorism against India on Friday, were awarded similar sentences.
While framing charges against six accused persons in 2017, discharged one accused namely Syed Anzar Shah.
It was alleged by the Delhi police that Rehman ran a madrassa in Uttar Pradesh. He was trying to radicalise the youths who enrolled there for terror activities.
During the investigation, he admitted his link with the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata.
The Cuttack District and Sessions Judge Court in the year 2017 framed charges against Abdur Rehman Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) as an terror suspect associated with Al-Qaeda.
Rehman was arrested during a joint operation by the special cell of Delhi and Odisha police on December 16, 2015, for allegedly running an illegal Madrasa at Tangi near Cuttack and radicalising the youths who enrolled there for terror activities.
Police sources said that he had visited Pakistan illegally and met top militants, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Sajid Mir, both wanted in the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks, there.
He had provided a safe shelter to a Pakistani terrorist involved in the plane hijack. He had kept in a in a secret location in Cuttack district.
