new Delhi. According to the other big news in the morning, today 49 convicts of the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in July 2008 were heard today. In this case, shortly before now, the court has sentenced 38 out of 49 convicts to death. It is to be known that on February 8, the Special Court had convicted all of them. While 28 accused were acquitted. The hearing in this case was going on in the Special Court for the last 13 years.
#UPDATE , 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case: 11 convicts have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case | A special court pronounces death sentence to 38 out of 49 convicts pic.twitter.com/CtcEWGze2z
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Significantly, the court has held everyone guilty of conspiracy and terrorism cases. Along with this, everyone will be sentenced today under sections 302 and 120 of IPC. Significantly, on 26 July 2008, 21 bomb blasts took place in Ahmedabad during 70 minutes, in which 56 people also lost their lives. More than 200 were also injured.
#UPDATE , 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case: 11 convicts have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2022
At the same time, the links of the blasts in Ahmedabad were linked to the banned organization Hizbul Mujahideen (IM) and in December 2009, the trial started against a total of 78 people. Later, after one accused became a government witness, the total number of accused was reduced to 77. Terrorists affiliated to the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were also involved in these blasts. At the same time, 5 minutes before the blasts, the terrorists had also sent a mail to the news agencies in which it was written, ‘Do whatever you want. If you can stop then stop.’
It is to be known that in this regard, the police had made a serious allegation that the terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen (IM) had planned these blasts to avenge the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 after the Godhra incident. Many people of the minority community also died in these riots.