Batla House shootout: Court awards life term to Ahmad

New Delhi  : A Delhi court Tuesday awarded life term to Shahzad Ahmad, lone convict and a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative in the 2008 Batla House shootout case.

Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, who convicted the 24-year-old man from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh for killing Delhi Police Special Cell Inspector M.C. Sharma in the shootout, awarded life term to Ahmad and also imposed a Rs.95,000 fine on him.