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A Jammu and Kashmir court in the Rajouri district handed death sentence to a convicted terrorist in a landmark first for the troubled state.
The terrorist, Mohammad Younus alias Amir Khan, was convicted for the murder of five members of a family and will be hanged to death at a yet undecided date.
In October 2005, Younus and four others had entered the house of Munshi Ram in Rajnagar village in Budhal in Rajouri, 180 km north-east of Jammu, and slit his throat as well as that of his brother, his two sons and a nephew. An arrest followed in 2006.
This is the first case where a militant involved in massacres has been found guilty and sentenced to death in Jammu and Kashmir, where militancy has been raging for the past 20 years and led to the deaths of more than 50,000 people.
