An anti-terror court in Lucknow on Monday pronounced the death sentence to Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, convicted for attacking security staff at Gorakhpur's Gorakhnath temple with a sharp-edged weapon last year, according to media reports.
Abbasi was convicted by the ATS court in Lucknow on Saturday.
According to an FIR lodged at the Gorakhnath police station on April 4, 2022, on the basis of a complaint from Vinay Kumar Mishra, Abbasi, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) graduate, tried to forcibly enter the Gorakhnath temple premises on April 3 and attacked the security personnel deployed there with a sickle, injuring two Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) constables.