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Mumbai train blast case: Court to pronounce punishment today

by IBNS 14 Sep 2015, 07:46 am

#Mumbai train blast case: Court to pronounce punishment today

Mumbai, Sept 14 (IBNS) Twelve men convicted for the 7/11 serial blasts on Mumbai's local trains in 2006, are expected to be sentenced by a court today.

Reports said the  prosecution has pleaded for capital punishment or  life term, for those charged with murder.

Last week, a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court convicted 12 of the 13 people arrested in the case. One was acquitted. 

 
 The accused are charged with various crimes including  murder, attempt to murder, causing hurt and criminal conspiracy. They were found guilty of procuring, transporting and planting bombs.


Seven blasts had ripped through first class compartments on Mumbai's local trains in 11 minutes on the evening of July 11, 2006 in which 189 people were killed and more than 800  injured.
 
Some of the accused have been found guilty of transporting Pakistani nationals to Mumbai through Nepal and harbouring them at their homes.
 
The RDX bombs were kept in pressure cookers and placed in trains on the Western line.

The blasts occurred during the office peak hours when lakhs of office-goers use Mumbai's local trains to get back home from work.

15 people accused in the 7/11 bombings are still absconding, among the masterminds, the police say. They say Pakistani nationals and members of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba were involved.
 
In 2008, the Supreme Court stayed the trial as it heard a petition by the accused, who had challenged the provisions of MCOCA. Trial resumed two years later, after a go-ahead from the Supreme Court.

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