The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed to 38 of the 49 persons convicted in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case, The Indian Express reported.
A division bench of Justices AY Kogje and Samir Dave also upheld the sentence of life imprisonment given to the remaining 11 persons. The court rejected all appeals filed by the convicts.
Twenty-two explosions had ripped through the city on July 26, 2008, leaving 56 dead and more than 200 injured. A special court had in February 2022 convicted the 49 persons, of whom 38 were sentenced to death, and the others were given life imprisonment.
Twenty-eight persons had been acquitted in the case and one person accused in the matter had turned an approver for the prosecution, Bar and Bench reported.
The blastsThe blasts on July 26, 2008, took place at the municipal-run Lallubhai Gordhandas Hospital, on buses, parked bicycles and in cars.
The police had claimed that persons associated with the banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen were responsible for the serial blasts. The Indian Mujahideen is a faction of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India.
The investigators alleged that the explosions were planned as revenge for the 2002 Gujarat riots in which the majority of those killed were Muslims.
Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.
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