‘Will challenge in high court’: Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind chief on death sentence for Varanasi blasts accused
India Today
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind chief Maulana Asad Madani said on Tuesday that the death sentence awarded to Waliullah, convicted in the 2006 Varanasi serial blasts case, will be challenged in the high court.
Maulana Asad Madani, the national president of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, said on Tuesday that the death sentence awarded to Waliullah in the 2006 Varanasi serial blasts case will be challenged in the high court.
On Monday, a Ghaziabad court sentenced Waliullah, the lone accused in the blasts case, to death. On Saturday, he was held guilty in the case.
For the last ten years, Waliullah was being provided legal aid by Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind.
“We have full faith that he will get full justice in the high court. There have been many cases in which the lower courts gave certain punishment but when those cases went to the high court, justice was delivered,” Maulana Asad Madani said.
He added, “An example of this is the Akshardham temple attack case, in which the lower court awarded death sentence to three people and life imprisonment to four. Although the high court upheld the decision, the Supreme Court acquitted them and reprimanded the police. Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind provided legal aid.”
On March 7, 2006, blasts at the Sankat Mochan temple and the cantonment railway station in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi claimed at least 20 lives and left over a hundred injured. The same evening, explosives were also found at Dashashwamedh Ghat.
The next month, the Varanasi police arrested Waliullah in connection with the case. He was accused of plotting the serial blasts in Varanasi.
