Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 23: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed an additional charge sheet in the court here against two persons including a Bengaluru-based doctor who is reportedly a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization.

Charge sheets were filed against Dr Sabeel Ahmed living in Cox Town here and Asadulla Khan from Hyderabad in the NIA cases special court here.

A case registered in Basaveshwara Nagar police station here on August 29, 2012. It was later taken over by NIA Hyderabad unit. During its investigation, NIA has already filed charge sheets against 17 persons. The NIA special cout here had imposed fine and announced jail sentences of five years to 13 persons out of them on September 16, 2016. In the case of others, hearing is continuing. Six more accused are at large, the police told.

Dr Sabeel Ahmed happens to be a relative of Kafeel, an aeronautical engineer. Kafeel had planned terrorist attack on Glasgow airport in 2017. Sabel happens to be his relative. Kafeel had died during the raid. Sabeel, who was in hiding in Saudi Arabia, had been deported to India at the request of Indian investigation agency. The accused who is in NIA custody, was facing a case in Delhi.