Bengaluru. A man who celebrated the Pulwama terror attack in 2019 has been sentenced to severe punishment by the court. According to reports, a special court in Bengaluru has sentenced an engineering student to 5 years imprisonment for celebrating the suicide attack on a CRPF convoy. Apart from this, the court has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the person. Rasheed, a third semester student, was arrested for a Facebook post made on 14 February 2019.

The case was transferred to the special unit

Faiz Rashid, a third-semester student of Electronics and Communication at a reputed college in Bengaluru, had supported the brutal terrorist attack on CRPF personnel. He had challenged the sovereignty and integrity of the country by posting about it on Facebook. There was a lot of outrage among the people regarding his Facebook post, after which the Banaswadi Police in Bangalore had registered an FIR against him. The police had registered a case under various sections of IPC and UAPA and transferred it to the special unit of CCB.

40 soldiers were martyred in the terrorist attack
After arresting the accused, his mobile was confiscated and after taking the report from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), the charge sheet was presented in the Special NIA Court. Rasheed was in jail since his arrest in February 2019 as his bail applications continued to get rejected. In the Pulwama terror attack on 14 February 2019, a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying CRPF personnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in which 40 soldiers were martyred.