A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Guwahati in Kamrup Metropolitan District in Assam on May 24, convicted a person identified as Mohammad Saidul Alam, a resident of Hojai District in Assam and sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with a 2018 conspiracy case related to the formation of a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) module, reports NDTV. An NIA official stated that during 2017-2018, Alam along with two other convicts in the case had organised a series of meetings in various mosques in Hojai District. The meetings were used to spread the HM’s hardcore fundamentalist ideology and youths attending these meetings were told about the need to raise a module of HM for committing terrorist acts. Alam had also conspired to raise funds for procurement of arms and ammunition and had installed blackberry messenger (BBM) App on his mobile to stay in touch with HM cadres in Jammu and Kashmir.