India, Oct. 1 -- A sessions court in Gujarat's Rajkot has sentenced three youths from West Bengal to life imprisonment until death for promoting terrorist ideology and waging war against the state.

Additional sessions judge I.B. Pathan has also imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 each on them.

The court in its 85-page order, dated September 30, observed that the accused conspired to travel to Kashmir to join Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a subgroup of the banned organisation Al-Qaeda, with the intention of attacking Indian Army and police forces. The court further noted that their conspiracy aimed to establish Sharia law in India and to recruit and incite Muslim youths in Rajkot to participate in jihad.

The court stated that the accused procured a pi...