2008 Ahmedabad blasts case: Gujarat court to pronounce quantum of sentence today

India

oi-Deepika S

Ahmedabad,
Feb
18:
A
particular
court docket
will
on
Friday
pronounce
the
quantum
of
sentence
towards
49
convicts
in
the
2008
Ahmedabad
serial
bomb
blast
case.

The
arguments
on
the
quantum
of
sentence
concluded
on
Tuesday,
and
the
court docket
of
particular
choose
A
R
Patel
had
saved
the
matter
of
judgement
for
February
18.

The
particular
court docket
had
final
week
convicted
49
folks
and
acquitted
28
others,
extra
than
13
years
after
a
collection
of
bomb
blasts
killed
56
folks
and
left
over
200
injured
in
Ahmedabad,
inside
70
minutes,
on
July
26,
2008.

The
convicts
entice
a
most
punishment
of
demise
sentence
and
imprisonment
for
life
underneath
the
Illegal
Actions
(Prevention)
Act
(UAPA).

The
accused
have
been
convicted
underneath
varied
sections
of
the
Indian
Penal
Code,
UAPA,
Explosive
Substances
Act
and
Harm
to
Public
Property
Act.
One
accused
was
additionally
convicted
underneath
the
Arms
Act.

They
have been
convicted
underneath
sections
302
(homicide),
307
(try
to
homicide),
121
(a)
(conspiracy
to
wage
warfare
or
try
to
wage
warfare
towards
the
nation)
and
124
(a)
(sedition)
amongst
others
of
the
IPC,
and
16(1)(a)(b)
of
the
UAPA
associated
to
punishment
for
a
terrorist
act.

The
court docket
had
concluded
a
trial
towards
77
accused
in
September
final
12 months.
Of
the
78
accused
put
on
trial,
one
had
turned
an
approver.

The
police
had
claimed
that
folks
related
with
the
terror
outfit
Indian
Mujahideen
(IM),
a
faction
of
radicals
of
the
banned
College students
Islamic
Motion
of
India
(SIMI),
have been
concerned
in
the
blasts.

It
was
alleged
that
the
IM
terrorists
had
deliberate
these
blasts
to
avenge
the
2002
post-Godhra
riots.