The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted all the 11 accused convicted for 1993 Surat bomb blast in Gujarat, in which a woman was killed and several people were injured.
An apex court bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice C. Nagappam while acquitting the 11 accused reversed the TADA court verdict that gave them imprisonment varying from 10 to 20 years.
The two blasts had taken place in January 1993 in Varachha area and on platform number one of Surat railway station during the communal riots that broke out after the demolition of Babri Masjid.
The blast at Varachha had claimed the life of a school girl, Alpa Patel, and injured 11 others, while that on the railway station had wounded around 20 people.
In October 2008, a TADA court in Surat had sentenced five persons, including former Congress minister Mohammad Surti, to 20 years in prison while others were awarded 10 years jail term in the cases.
