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7/11 Mumbai train blasts sentences today

by IBNS 29 Sep 2015, 10:27 pm

Mumbai, Sept 30 (IBNS) Nine years after the 7/11 blasts that killed many local train passengers in Mumbai in one of the worst terror attacks in the country, a special court will on Wednesday hand down sentences to 12 people convicted for plotting and executing the bombings.

On July 11, 2006, several bomb blasts ripped through Mumbai's local trains in a synchronised attack in the evening peak hours in Borivli, Churchgate, Virar, Matunga, Khar, Jogeshwari. Altogether 188 people were killed and 816 injured.

The explosions triggered by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were so powerful that they ripped through the double-layered steel roof and sides of each of the suburban train compartments.


The  convicts include key conspirators Faisal Sheikh and Asif Khan, who  planted bombs in various train, their associates  Kamal Ansari, Ehtesham Siddiqui and Naveed Khan; the man who made the electrical circuits for the IEDs, Mohammed Sajid Ansari,  Mohammed Ali and Dr Tanveer Ansari.

he prosecution said the four other convicts – Majid Shafi, Muzzammil Shaikh, Sohail Shaikh and Zamir Shaikh – who provided logistical support, deserved leniency and sought life imprisonment for them. The trial court had earlier acquitted one man Abdul Wahid Din Mohammad Shaikh.