1993 Mumbai blasts: Verdict against Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa, others likely today
Mumbai: A special court here is relied upon to convey its decision in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts on Friday, including seven charged, including removed gangster Abu Salem.
The obnoxious assaults left 257 individuals dead, 713 truly harmed and decimated properties worth Rs 27 crore.
Aside from Abu Salem, who was extradited from Portugal in 2005, the other denounced are Mustafa Dossa (extradited from the UAE), Mohammed Tahir Merchant assumed name Tahir Takla, Abdul Qayyum, Karimullah Khan, Riyaz Siddiqui and Feroze Abdul Rashid Khan.
Salem was blamed for transporting weapons from Gujarat to Mumbai.
He additionally has given over to actor Sanjay Dutt, who was a denounced for the situation for unlawfully having weapons, AK 56 rifles, 250 bullets and some hand grenades at his residence on January 16, 1993. After two days on January 18, 1993, Salem and two others went to Dutt's home and got back two rifles and a few rounds.
Mustafa Dossa supposedly engineered the arrival of explosives incorporating RDX in India and sent some young to Pakistan to gain arms preparing.
Dossa is confronting charges of the scheme and orchestrating arriving of the explosives - around 3,000 kg of RDX, alongside his partners in Raigad.
The court, taking all things together, recorded articulations of around 750 indictment witnesses and 50 witnesses. Three blamed including Salem admitted to their wrongdoing amid examinations completed by the CBI throughout the years in the impacts case.