A court here on Wednesday sentenced Jamat-ul-Mujhahideen Bangladesh leader and main accused in the 2014 Khagragarh explosion, Jaidul Islam Iliad Kauser, to 29 years of rigorous imprisonment.

The verdict was pronounced by chief judge of a city session court, Subhendu Samanta. Thirty people had been sentenced to life in 2019 in the same case.

Since Kauser had been absconding and was arrested in 2018, his trial was held later. He was also an accused in Bihar’s Bodhgaya blast in 2005. The blast at a flat in Burdwan’s Khagragarh had claimed two lives and blown the lid off the JMB module in Bengal.

National Investigation Agency had been conducting the inquiry into the Khagragarh case.

The NIA investigators had seized 55 improvised devices and a huge quantity of RDX from the blast site.