1993 Mumbai blasts

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'93 blasts verdict: 'A good beginning'

"A good beginning has been made", said the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday reacting to the verdict by a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act Court in Mumbai against the accused in 1993 serial blasts.


"A good beginning has been made. The CBI will wait for the complete judgement to offer its holistic response," CBI spokesman G Mohanty told reporters in New Delhi.


Thirteen years after the blasts, the TADA court in Mumbai pronounced its verdict finding Tiger Memon's brothers Yakub, Essa, Yusuf and sister-in-law Rubina guilty of conspiracy for the incidents.


"The verdict in this case was awaited for the last three years. The CBI welcomes the fact that the judgement is now being delivered," the CBI spokesman said.


The CBI had collected additional evidence after taking over the probe from the Mumbai police and also identified 18 additional accused during its investigation.


The agency also arrested 26 accused, which included underworld don Abu Salem who was extradited from Portugal in November 2005 in connection with the blasts.


CBI pruned the list of 3,500 witnesses as cited by the Mumbai police to 684, who were essential to prove all the charges.


The trial against 123 accused persons was completed on September 19, 2003.



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93 Mumbai bomb blasts TADA court trial chronology

Following is the chronology of events in the Terrorist and Disruptive (Activities) Act court trial into 13 bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people and injuring 713.


November 4, 1993: Over 10,000 page-long primary chargesheet filed against 189 accused, including actor Sanjay Dutt.


November 19, 1993: The case is handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.


April 1, 1994: The TADA court shifted from the city sessions and civil court to a separate building inside the premises of the Central Jail at Arthur Road.


April 10, 1995: 26 accused discharged by the TADA court and charges framed against the remaining accused. Supreme Court discharges two more accused, travel agent Abu Asim Azmi (now Samajwadi Party member of Parliament) and Amjed Meher Baux.


April 19, 1995: Trial in the case commences.


April-June 1995: Charges framed against the accused.


June 30, 1995: Two accused persons, Mohammed Jameel and Usman Jhankanan, turn approvers in the case.


October 14, 1995: Sanjay Dutt (accused number 117), arrested on April 19, 1993, granted bail by the Supreme Court.


March 23, 1996: Judge J N Patel transfered and elevated as a high court judge.


March 29, 1995: P D Kode designated as a special TADA judge.


October 2000: Examination of 684 prosecution witnesses ends.


March 9-July 18, 2001: The accused persons' statements recorded.


August 9, 2001: Prosecution begins arguments in the case.


October 18, 2001: Prosecution completes arguments.


November 9, 2001: Defence starts arguments.


August 22, 2002: Defence closes arguments.


February 20, 2003: Dawood gang member Ejaz Pathan produced in court.


March 20, 2003: Mustafa Dossa's remand proceedings and trial separated.


September 2003: Trial ends, waiting for judgement.


June 13, 2006: Salem's trial separated.


August 10, 2006: Judge P D Kode starts dictating the verdict and says the judgement will be pronounced on September 12.


September 12, 2006: The court starts delivering the judgement, pronounces four members of the Memon family guilty, acquits three.


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93 blasts: one convicted, 5 acquitted

A Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention Act) court in Mumbai convicted Sarfaraz Dawood Phanse on Thursday for his role in landing of arms and ammunition at Shekhadi in Raigad district in Maharashtra before the 1993 serial bomb blasts.

The court, however, acquitted five other accused -- Mansoor Ahmed Mansoor Qureshi, Shaikh Kasam alias Babulal, Sultan-e-Rome Ali Gul, Abdul Aziz Abdul Kader and Mohammed Iqbal Ibrahim -- for want of evidence. The Central Bureau of Investigation had claimed that the five had gone to Dubai on February 15, 1993, and attended a meeting there, as part of the conspiracy hatched by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon for the blasts.

However, they could not go to Pakistan for arms training as travel arrangements in this regard were not made.

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