Mumbai Train Blasts Case Sentencing

A social activist has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis opposing any decision for early release of actor Sanjay Dutt, who is serving jail sentence in a 1993 blasts case for possessing illegal weapon, saying it will set a "wrong precedent".

The kin of the convicts in the 7/11 serial train blasts case in Mumbai, five of whom have been handed death sentence, today said they will approach the High Court to challenge the verdict.

Nine years after a series of bomb blasts in suburban trains rattled Mumbai killing 188 people, a special court in Mumbai is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment for 12 convicts in the case today.

Nine years after a series of bomb blasts in suburban trains rattled Mumbai killing 188 people, a special court in Mumbai is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment for 12 convicts in the case tomorrow.

The arguments over the quantum of sentence in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts, in which 188 people died and over 800 people were injured, will continue on Wednesday in a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act or MCOCA court.

Twelve men convicted for the 7/11 serial blasts on Mumbai's local trains in 2006, are expected to be sentenced by a court today. The prosecution has said it will seek the strictest punishment, the death sentence or a life term, for those charged with murder.

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...

A social activist has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis opposing any decision for early release of actor Sanjay Dutt, who is serving jail sentence in a 1993 blasts case for possessing illegal weapon, saying it will set a "wrong precedent".

The kin of the convicts in the 7/11 serial train blasts case in Mumbai, five of whom have been handed death sentence, today said they will approach the High Court to challenge the verdict.

Nine years after a series of bomb blasts in suburban trains rattled Mumbai killing 188 people, a special court in Mumbai is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment for 12 convicts in the case today.

Nine years after a series of bomb blasts in suburban trains rattled Mumbai killing 188 people, a special court in Mumbai is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment for 12 convicts in the case tomorrow.

The arguments over the quantum of sentence in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts, in which 188 people died and over 800 people were injured, will continue on Wednesday in a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act or MCOCA court.

Twelve men convicted for the 7/11 serial blasts on Mumbai's local trains in 2006, are expected to be sentenced by a court today. The prosecution has said it will seek the strictest punishment, the death sentence or a life term, for those charged with murder.

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...