Thiruvananthapuram:
A court in Kerala has found 13 people guilty of recruiting young men from the state for terror camps in Kashmir. They are likely to be sentenced on Friday. They include a man named Nazeer who is allegedly a member of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Five others have been acquitted.
The case was registered in 2012 by the police at Edakkad in the Kannur district and later handed over to the National Investigating Agency or NIA. The agency interrogated 186 people in the case.
The agency had said that the Lashkar, which is based in Pakistan, had been recruiting young men from Kerala to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir.
The NIA said that in 2008, four young men from Kerala were killed in an encounter by security forces in Kashmir. The details of their case allegedly unraveled how young men were being head-hunted and sent on terror missions to Kashmir.