SPECIAL NIA COURT DELHI SENTENCES 3 ACCUSED IN KHAJA MOIDEEN ISISI CASE

New Delhi, 1st September 2024: The Special Judge, NIA, Patiala House Complex, New Delhi, on Saturday sentenced three accused in the  2020 Khaja Moideen ISIS case, in which they had indiscriminately fired at police party in order to evade arrest.

All three accused, Khaja Moideen, Syed Ali Nawas and Abdul Samad, had been convicted by the court in the case RC-5/2020/NIA/DLI on 6th August 2024. They had been arrested on 9th January 2020 from Delhi and were in judicial custody since then.

The main accused, Khaja Moideen, had absconded after being released on conditional bail in the communally sensitive murder case of K.P. Suresh Kumar in June 2014.  He had conspired to revive the ISIS network in India and had motivated the other two to migrate to an Islamic country.

In a bid to evade arrest, the trio had, in January 2020, fired indiscriminately at police personnel and were subsequently apprehended from Wazirabad, New Delhi.

While Khaja Moideen and Syed Ali Nawas have been sentenced to 7 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs. 7,500 fine, Abdul Samad has been sentenced for the imprisonment period already undergone.