The high court on Monday adjourned the criminal appeal filed by the state government, represented by Sadashivanagar police, seeking maximum punishment to six convicted people for the 2005 terror attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) that killed a retired professor.
The convicts – Mohammed Raza-ul-Rehman, Afzal Pasha, Mehboob Ibrahim, Miruddin Khan, Nizamuddin and Munna, suspected to have links with terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba – were convicted on charges of plotting the terror attack and waging war against the country,. The court, however, acquitted another man charged with conspiracy. During the attack, delegates emerging out of an international conference at the IISc were fired at on December 28, 2005, killing a retired professor of IIT-Delhi and injuring four others. The police had filed cases of sedition, terrorism and religious disharmony, among others, against the accused. The state had later appealed seeking the maximum punishment of death sentence as the six convicts had been sentenced to life imprisonment.