SIMI operatives sentenced in MP's Dewas bank robbery case

BHOPAL: A special

NIA court

here awarded

SIMI operatives

Abu Faisal and Iqrar Sheikh life sentences on charges of carrying out bank robbery at

Dewas

. Trial of the case was being conducted in a

Bhopal

court following directives of the

MP high court

. The convicts are already in

jail

after being sentenced by the court in the

Manappuram Gold robbery case

.

According to PRO, prosecution wing, Bhopal, eye witnesses in the case recognised Iqrar Sheikh while fingerprints found at Vijaya Ganj Mandi branch Bank of India, Dewas, tallied with the fingerprints of Abu Faisal. The Vijaya Ganj police station had registered a case on August 24, 2009 following robbery at Bank of India branch in the area. According to the FIR, when working hours of the bank had ended, four persons came into the bank from the main gate.
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