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Visakhapatnam Spying case: NIA Court awards sentence to two more accused

New Delhi December 15(UNI): A special NIA court awarded five years eleven months and fifteen days sentence to two more accused in the Pakistan-linked Visakhapatnam Navy spying case. This takes the total number of convictions in the case so far to 10. Trial is continuing against the remaining five accused arrested by NIA in the case.
Thr court awarded the sentence to Somnath Sanjay Ikade of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, and Sonu Kumar of Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh. They were arrested in December 2019 from Karwar (Karnataka) and Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) respectively.
Each of them has been sentenced to Simple Imprisonment (SI) of 5 years, 11 months and 15 days under each of section 18 of UA(P) Act and section 3 of Official Secrets Act. The Special Court at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) has also imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000 each on the duo, who will have to undergo one year additional simple imprisonment in case of default in payment of the fine.
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