Chandigarh, June 5 -- A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has convicted and sentenced three accused in a 2018 terror conspiracy case linked with the banned Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) terrorist organisation, involving the seizure of weapons and explosive materials from an educational institute hostel room in Jalandhar, Punjab.

According to an official release, the NIA special court at Mohali in Punjab, which had convicted Zahid Gulzar, Yasir Rafiq Bhat and Mohammad Idris Shah in the case RC-34/2018/NIA/DLI on Monday, passed the sentences against them on June 4.

The sentences against the three range from 5, 7 and 10 years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) under different provisions of IPC, UA (P) Act, Arms Act and Expl...