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Counsel of the state government pleaded that Aftab Ansari was a member of the Asif Reza Commando Force, a terrorist organisation that had carried out the strike at the American Centre in Kolkata on January 22, 2002. Five Kolkata Police personnel were killed in the attack. A trial court had awarded death sentence to Aftab Ansari, Jamil Uddin Nasir, Mussarat Hussain, Hassarat Allam, Adil Hussain, Sakil Akhtar and Rehan Alam on April 26, 2005. Counsel of the state claimed that Asif Reza Khan, earlier a resident of Kolkata, had been killed in an encounter in Gujarat on January 14, 2002. Asif was the leader of the Asif Reza Commando Force, which had attacked the American Centre for revenge.
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