A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to three convicts in the 2002-03 Mumbai blasts cases — Muzammil Ansari, Wahid Ansari and Farhaan Khot.
Former general secretary of SIMI Saquib Nachan, who the prosecution claimed was a key accused, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, along with Ateef Mulla, Hasib Mulla and Gulam Khotal. The others — Noor Malik, Anwar Ali and Muhammed Kamil — were sentenced to two years.
On March 29, the court convicted 10 persons and acquitted three others in the case of triple blasts that occurred in the city between December 2002 and March 2003 that claimed 12 lives.
The blasts:
On December 6, 2002, a bomb exploded in the Mumbai Central railway station, injuring 27 persons.
On January 27, 2003, one woman died when a bomb exploded in Vile Parle.
On March 13 that year, a bomb exploded in a Karjat-bound train, leaving 11 dead and 82 injured.
