2 get death penalty over '05 blast in Shramjeevi express
Hindustan Times|January 04, 2024
A court in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday sentenced to death two men, including one from Bangladesh, in connection with Shramjeevi Express train blast in 2005 that left at least 14 people dead and 62 injured.

Two other convicts were given death penalty in the case in 2016 and their appeals are pending in the high court; two other accused were killed in an encounter, and one is absconding. The court of additional sessions court judge Rajesh Kumar Rai awarded death sentences to Hilal alias Hilaluddin, a resident of Bangladesh, and Nafikul Vishwas, a resident of West Bengal.

"People had to bear unbearable pain. The accused had no enmity with the innocent people. The accused committed this criminal act under a conspiracy with beastly intention to spread terror among the people......there is no justification to show sympathy and softness with the accused, said the court in a 10-page verdict.

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