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    Death rap for 3 Mumbai blast convicts upheld

    Yahoo! India News – Fri 10 Feb, 2012

    MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court today upheld the death sentence awarded to three convicts in the 2003 Mumbai blasts case.

    A division bench, comprising Justice P D Kode and Justice A M Khanwilkar, had reserved its judgement in the case on November 12, 2011.

    The convicts -- Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43), and Ashrat Ansari (32) -- were awarded the death penalty by a Special Prevention of Terrorism Act Court in August 2009 which had found them guilty of causing the death of 52 innocent people and injuring 244 others by planting powerful explosive devices in two taxis.

    One of the taxis exploded at the Gateway of India, while the other at Zaveri Bazaar in South Mumbai on August 25, 2003. 

    Chronology of blast in Mumbai

    December 2, 2002 - Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) activists place bomb in a BEST public bus at Santacruz East Export Promotion Zone (SEEPZ), a commercial hub in Andheri East; the bomb proves a dud.

    July 28, 2002 -The same LeT group puts a bomb in a BEST bus in Ghatkopar, an eastern Mumbai suburb dominated by Gujaratis. It killed two and injured 31.

    August 25, 2003 - Twin blasts in Mumbai, at Gateway of India and another in Zaveri Bazar, a gold jewellery hub in south Mumbai, where mainly Gujaratis operate. Killed 54, injured 244.

    September 2003 - Nazir, believed to be the twin blasts mastermind, killed in police shootout at Matunga, central Mumbai.

    October 1, 2003 - Three prime accused - Mohammed Hanif Sayed, his wife Fehmida, daughter Farheen - and their associate Ashrat Shafique Ansari nabbed.

    October 2, 2003 - Two accomplices held, Rizwan M A Laddoowala and Mohammed Hassan Batterywala, both electricians.

    June 2, 2004 - Another accused, Zahid Yusuf Patni, nabbed in October 2003 turned approver in the case. Revealed how the entire conspiracy was hatched in Dubai with him as the Chief of a LeT terror module in Mumbai called the Gujarat Revenge Force.

    November 2008 - Laddoowala and Batterywala ordered by the Supreme Court to be discharged from the trial in Mumbai special court of Prevention Of Terrorist Act (POTA), for lack of evidence. Earlier, even Farheen, being a minor, had been discharged from the case before filing the charge sheet in end-2003.

    July 27, 2009 - The six-year long trial finally ends in POTA court. Special Judge M R Puranik pronounces the Sayed couple and their associate Ashrat guilty.

    December 12, 2011: The Bombay High Court deffered its judgement on the death sentence awarded by a trail court to the three accused in the twin blasts that killed 52 and injured 184.

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    • shweta
      shweta  •  Pune, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      aaj tak kasab ko faasi toh di nahi inko kya denge.Indian Govt. has got tons of money to feed these dogs as we Indian s are suffering from inflation & these dogs are enjyng life in Central Jail. If govt. stop feeding them so atleast they can some hw reduce the price of Petrol, Gas & our basic need cost. Bt they can't do dis......... ridiculous.........
    • surjitsingh
      surjitsingh  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      3 more damad of congress who will get vip treatment in gail with "zzz" security
    • yuva
      yuva  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      this time congress party is full of idiot politicians example, digvijay singh, salman khurshid, kapil sibbal and so many they r very well educated in idiotics, they do comment on public interest issue like '' gadha'' denchu dench dench........... . how they get degrees in their college ?????
      • amit
        amit 3 months ago
        It was always full of these type of people. They care only for vote banks and not enough for public...
    • Anzar mohd
      Anzar mohd  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      hindustan mein kahi bhi kuch bhi hota hai bas aaknh band kar ke bo do it must be done by a muslim bullshit with u and bull shit to the people of india who believe in indian constitution and having a vewrry narrow mind as their fore fathers had
      • ENOUGH
        ENOUGH 3 months ago
        If we were narrow minded you would not have the guts to curse India living in India..
      • yuva
        yuva 3 months ago
        dear u r wrong , not only in india, in whole world anything happens done by muslim until unless proven wrong. u hv to read more news n history, open ur eyes, this time u r being emotional think with cool mind.
      • yuva
        yuva 3 months ago
        i dare too make comment on our priest and our community leaders , do u hv guts .... so fallow them only , its ur fate not our, we r happy n proud to be indian n hindu. hindu is a way of living . we hv no profet like other who fallow any ones direcion.
    • True Patriot
      True Patriot  •  Lagos, Nigeria  •  3 months ago
      Sonia wept on hearing this.
    • Deepa
      Deepa  •  Singapore, Singapore  •  3 months ago
      insert a bomb in muslim criminal and send him to any famous mosque in pakistan,then operate the bomb with a remote control.let the devils perish in thousands and do this on Ramadan day
      • Kareem
        Kareem 3 months ago
        Wow! what a great thought - as great as these people, who are punished by the law. Truly our country needs less people like you and the punished culprits
    • PREDICTER
      PREDICTER  •  Bhubaneswar, Orissa  •  3 months ago
      bandit queen am vinci and donkey son raul vinci are the kingpins behind all problems caused by the muslim community .
    • Heman
      Heman  •  3 months ago
      No mercy should be shown to them and they should be sent to gallows immediately. Else Congress will throw them in jail and play vote bank politics.
    • Sujit
      Sujit  •  Bangalore, Karnataka  •  3 months ago
      insert a tiny bomb inside their assholes,blast first then u hang them? its a shame to the indian judicial system that took so long to give the sentences.
      • '
        ' 3 months ago
        Thats wd be painfull... Not for the tiny blast in the ass but they cdnt poop for long. lollll
    • Minaaz
      Minaaz  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      send thses muslims iditots to their shithole mecca and let them blow themselves.time to clean our country.we need more bal thackrey and modi
      • sanmukh
        sanmukh 3 months ago
        yes bro we need necessary evil to control this islam terrorists
      • amit
        amit 3 months ago
        well said...minaaz
    • Aseem
      Aseem  •  3 months ago
      They should have been hanged in 2003 itself. Why our law took 9 years to deliver justice? By the way, we should not rejoice yet because there is a world of difference between awarding a sentence and carrying it out. There are two big hurdles -- appeal and Human Rights Organisations.
    • mahmud
      mahmud  •  3 months ago
      Our courts and our judgements are poor in all over the world, we always competite with pakistan but if we see they have exiled their ruling people for their curruptions and looting the country, but in our country we always feed our politician and all these killers for years.

      We havent given a single justice to all those innocent people who died in these accidents, we havent given justices to rioters of 1984, 1992, 2001 and many more to count.

      Even after clearly getting evidence we dont do anything against any of the criminals. very very very very POOR JUDICIARY SYSTEM.
    • ilu
      ilu  •  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  •  3 months ago
      blood for blood, death for death
    • debendra
      debendra  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      How is it that neither Diggy nor Kapil nor Salluman has so far come to defend them and brand them as hindu terrorists?They comments are very much valuable.
    • Javed
      Javed  •  San Bruno, United States  •  3 months ago
      Why this took so many years...they should have hanged in 2003 only
    • letsgetunitedwillyou
      letsgetunitedwillyou  •  Bangalore, Karnataka  •  3 months ago
      KILL Politicians thats all...!!!!!!!!!!
    • manimaran
      manimaran  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  3 months ago
      HA HA HA when in 2030 announcement is sweet but our law is bull shit kasab yet to be hanged still enjoying the royal reception GOVT. spending in lac s till now
    • Man In Space
      Man In Space  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      Now how much will the government spend for their security as they will never be hanged?
      This is a similar case like kasab.
      This death sentence is become a black business to make black money for long term.
      It will be a miracle if they are put to death without wasting time.
    • Patriot Missile
      Patriot Missile  •  3 months ago
      The verdict should be carried out at the earliest. It should not be another Ajmal Kasab or Afzal Guru case.
    • Kukki
      Kukki  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      CONgress,please do not hang them for you will loose votes.This is my wise advice.
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