Overview
- Idris was convicted by the NIA special court in Kolkata under IPC and UAPA provisions and given concurrent sentences capped at 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
- Court documents and agency statements indicate he entered a guilty plea, which the court accepted before pronouncing sentence on January 21.
- The case stems from a March 2020 STF raid in Baduria, where college student Tania Parveen was arrested and jihadi literature was seized.
- NIA investigators found Idris and Altaf Ahmed Rather conspired with Parveen to build a Lashkar-e-Taiba module that used social media to recruit and radicalise youth.
- Chargesheets were filed in September 2020 and May 2021, two Pakistan-based suspects remain absconding with Interpol notices issued, and trials continue against other accused.