On December 10, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Patna (Bihar) convicted eight out of nine Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists as they confessed their crime of planning and executing 2018 Bodh Gaya (Bihar) blast, reports Business Standard. The special NIA court of ADJ-XV Gurvinder Singh Malhotra has fixed December 17, 2021 to pronounce the quantum of sentence. Those who were pronounced guilty on the basis of their confession are Ahmad Ali alias Kalu, Nur Alam Momin, Mohammad Adil Sheikh, Abdul Karim, Mustafizur Rehman, Arif Hussain, Mohammad Paigambar Sheikh and Dilawar Hossain. The ninth accused Mohammad Jehidul Islam, a Bangladeshi national and suspectedly having direct linkages with JMB, has yet not filed any petition confessing his crime.