Srinagar, Aug. 8 -- A local court in Srinagar on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of former militant and Jamiat Ahle Hadees cleric Abdul Gani Dar, also known as Abdullah Gazali.

Gani Dar, former chief of Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, and a resident of Beerwah in Budgam district, was killed inside a mosque in the Maisuma area of Srinagar on February 13, 2020 by a Srinagar resident Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Dar.

Police officials said that Srinagar police has secured the conviction of the accused in the 2020 murder case registered as FIR No. 03/2020 of at Maisuma police station.

"The court convicted Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Dar, a resident of Bichwara, Dalgate, Srinagar, for the murder of Abdul Gani Dar, a resident of Rassu, Budgam,...