7/11 Mumbai train blasts sentences today
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.
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