Mumbai: A special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court on Thursday awarded gets life term to Abu Salem and Karimullah Khan. Three others are still awaiting the sentence.
The court had convicted six terrorists – Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa, Firoz Khan, Mohammed Tahir Merchant alias Tahir Taklya, Karimullah Khan and Riyaz Ahmed Siddique in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Dossa died on June 28, just a few days after being convicted. The case against him has been closed.
In 1993, 12 serial blasts rocked Mumbai that killed 257 and injured over 700 people. The incident introduced Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon to the world.
The Mumbai-blasts is the first terrorist attack in the world where RDX was used.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had requested life imprisonment for Abu Salem and another terrorist and death sentence for three.
“There are seven accused in front of the court right now. Six of them have been convicted. One was convicted for abetment of conspiracy for which the maximum punishment is life sentence. The other six are convicted for the main conspiracy for which their punishment can be death sentence,” Salvi was quoted as saying by ANI.
This was the second leg of the trial – in the first leg that concluded in 2007, the TADA court had convicted 100 accused in the case, while 23 people were acquitted.
Bureau Report
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