CALCUTTA, India, April 27 (UPI) -- An Indian court Wednesday sentenced to death seven people for an attack on the American Center in Calcutta three years ago that killed five policemen.
Aftab Ansari of Dubai and six others were convicted in the Jan. 22, 2002, terrorist attack on the facility and given the death penalty for waging war against the state.
Judge Basudev Mazumdar said the death sentence was subject to confirmation by the Calcutta High Court.
The six others sentenced along with Ansari were Jamiluddin Nasser, Rehan Alam, Adil Hasan, Musharat Hussain, Hasrat Alam and Shakir Akhtar.
Mazumdar acquitted two defendants, Dilip Patel and Shakil Mallick, for lack of evidence against them.
At least six others accused in the attack are still at large.
Ansari, who had called a leading newspaper office in Calcutta on the day of the attack to claim responsibility, was arrested by the Dubai police at the airport before he was to take a flight to Pakistan a day after the attack, the Press Trust of India reported.
The lawyers for the seven convicts said they would appeal the decision.
