New Delhi

A sitting Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) member of Parliament from Lakshadweep, Mohammad Faizal, has been disqualified from Lok Sabha after the lawmaker was sentenced to 10 years in jail in connection with an attempt to murder case.

The Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha decided on the disqualification of the MP late on Friday.

On January 11, after a trial lasting for about five years, the district sessions court in Kavaratti found Mohammed Faizal guilty and sentenced him to imprisonment for 10 years and fine of Rs 1 lakh.

He is currently detained in the central prison in Kerala's Kannur.

Faizal, an elected MP from the Union Territory since 2014 has been convicted in the case along with four others for an attempt to murder.

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He was convicted of attacking his relative Mohammad Salih. The prosecution argued that Faizal led a group of people to attack and grievously injure Salih over an argument about constructing a shed. The victim had been flown to Kerala where he remained hospitalised for months.