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NEW DELHI, Friday (Reuters) - An Indian court jailed five employees of an insurance firm for sedition after they glorified Osama bin Laden in a sales campaign, police said.

The internal campaign, named "Mission Jehad," addressed sales agents as "Dear terrorists" and compared selling life insurance policies to killing people, the Times of India newspaper said.

The posters were used at a meeting of sales agents for the ICICI Prudential Insurance Company in the northern Indian city of Kanpur.

"Kill 10, take a branded T-shirt and be the best terrorist in the group," agents were told on posters ostensibly signed by bin Laden, the newspaper said.

"Jehad begins from July 18-20," the posters said, announcing the start of the sales campaign.