Mumbai: A special TADA court in Mumbai on Friday found Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa, Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan, Tahir Merchant, Karimullah Khan guilty of all charges in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case
While accused Riaz Siddiqui has been convicted under TADA and other charges, Abdul Qayyum has been acquitted of all charges. The court observed that the prosecution failed to prove conspiracy charges against Siddiqui. The court will pronounce quantum of sentence on Monday (June19).
Dossa, along with his absconding accused brother Mohammed Dossa, is accused of holding the meetings before the blasts at his residence in Dubai and then supplying all the arms and ammunition to Mumbai.
Abu Salem, who was accused of transporting weapons from Gujarat to Mumbai, was arrested in Portugal in 2002.Â
The Mumbai serial blasts had left 257 people dead, 713 others seriously injured, and destroyed properties worth an estimated Rs 27 crore. On March 12, 1993 the country’s commercial capital witnessed an unprecedented terrorist attack when a series 12 bomb explosions took place one after another in about a span of two hours.
This was the first ever terrorist attack in the world where RDX (Research Department Explosive i.e cyclotrimethylene trinitramine) was used on such a large scale after the Second World War.
