Dhanbad Court Hands Life Imprisonment to Three in 2004 AK-47 House Attack

A district and sessions court in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, delivered a long-awaited verdict on the January 2004 assault on gangster Fahim Khan's residence. The panel, led by Judge Tripti Kumar Singh, found Shahid Alam, Shahadat Hussain and Tanveer Alam guilty and ordered them to serve life imprisonment. The judgment also imposed additional terms under the Arms Act to be served concurrently. During the 2004 raid, assailants opened fire with an AK-47 inside Khan's house in Wasseypur. Khan escaped, but his bodyguard Vinod Sharma was killed.