New Delhi, May 2 -- Another key operative of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist organisation has been convicted and sentenced by a special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the 2023 Bengaluru prison radicalisation case.

The Bengaluru special court has sentenced Vikram Kumar, also known as Chota Usman, to seven years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) along with Rs.30,000 in fine, under various provisions of IPC, UA (P) Act and Explosive Substances Act.

Vikram is the eighth accused to be convicted and sentenced in the case, re-registered by NIA as RC-28/2023/NIA/DLI. Just last month, the court had sentenced seven other accused, including mastermind and LeT member T Naseer, who had hatched the terror radicalisatio...