Ahmedabad serial blasts case: Gujarat court convicts 49 accused, lets off 28
India Today
A special court on Tuesday convicted 49 accused while acquitting 28 others in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case.
A special court in Gujarat on Tuesday convicted 49 accused while acquitting 28 others in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case. As many as 19 bombs rocked the city on July 26, 2008, claiming the lives of 56 people and injuring 200.
The court will pronounce the quantum of sentence on Wednesday.
Trial in the 13-year-old case had concluded in September 2021. The case was notified twice earlier this month for pronouncement of judgment, but was adjourned.
A total of 77 people were on trial. Of this, 12 were let off due to a lack of evidence, while 16 accused were given the benefit of doubt and acquitted.
The police had claimed people associated with the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, a faction of radicals of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), were involved in the blasts.
At least 56 people were killed and over 200 injured in 21 bomb blasts that rocked Ahmedabad city within a span of 70 minutes on July 26, 2008.
It was alleged Indian Mujahideen terrorists had planned and executed these explosions as a revenge for the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.
