Pune Bomb Blasts

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  Website On Hinduism Receives Bomb Threat, Pune Police Launch Probe

  A website about Hinduism, run by man from Pune, has received a comment from a person issuing threats about a bomb blast in India and to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi, police said today.

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  Malegaon Blast Accused Lt Col Prasad Purohit Walks Out Of Mumbai Jail After 9 Years

  An SUV, a sedan and two jeeps, all with military registration numbers, along with two Army trucks pulled up at Mumbai's Taloja jail this morning to escort Lt Col Prasad Srikanth Purohit to Pune, where he will join the last Army unit in which he was posted before his arrest in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case.

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  Narendra Dabholkar's Murder Delayed By 4 Years Due To 2009 Margao Blast: CBI

  Sanatan Sanstha activists Virendra Tawde and Sarang Akolkar wanted to eliminate rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2009 itself, but they dropped the plan due to the Margao bomb blast that took place in the same year, CBI sources allege on Wednesday, citing evidence pieced together by the agency.

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  German Bakery Blast Convict Won't Hang. Death Sentence Commuted To Life Term

  Himayat Baig, earlier convicted for bombing Pune's German Bakery where 17 people died, will not hang, said the Bombay High Court today, accepting his appeal against the death sentence given to him by a Pune court.

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  Actor Sanjay Dutt To Be Released From Pune's Yerwada Jail Tomorrow

  Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be a free man tomorrow when he walks out of the Yerwada Jail in Pune where he served 42 months, as a part of his five-year sentence after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

• Sanjay Dutt seeks another month's parole extension

  Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, jailed in the 1993 bomb blasts case, has sought a second extension of his parole to be with his wife Manyata, who is recovering from a surgery, police said today.

• Yasin Bhatkal to be quizzed by Andhra Pradesh police on Hyderabad blasts

  Police teams from Andhra Pradesh will soon be sent to Bihar to question arrested Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadulla Akhtar in connection with the February 21 twin bomb blasts case in Hyderabad, a top police official said today.

• Timer clocks, ammonium nitrate used in Bodh Gaya bombs

  The nature of the bombs used in the blasts, allegedly by Indian Mujahideen members, was similar to those found in Jaipur, Pune and Ahmedabad blasts, analysts said today.

• Sanjay Dutt withdraws plea to surrender at Pune's Yerwada Jail

  Actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, has withdrawn his plea to surrender at the Yerwada Jail in Pune. Mr Dutt will now be surrendering before the special TADA court in Mumbai tomorrow.

• Sanjay Dutt alleges threat from fundamentalists, asks court to allow him to surrender in jail

  Actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, told a TADA court on Tuesday that he was facing threat to his life from fundamentalist groups and should be allowed to surrender before Yerwada Jail in Pune instead of the special court in Mumbai.

• Putting blast behind, German Bakery reopens in Pune

  German Bakery, the eatery that came into focus after a bomb blast that killed 17 patrons and injured over 60 others in 2010, has been formally reopened at the posh Koregaon Park area in Pune with the owners hoping to erase the terrible memory.

• Pune German Bakery blast case: Key accused Himayat Baig sentenced to death

  A court in Pune has sentenced key accused Mirza Himayat Baig in the 2010 German Bakery blast case to death, calling it the 'rarest of rare' case.

• Pune's German Bakery blast case: quantum of sentence likely to be announced today

  A court in Pune is expected to announce the quantum of sentence in the 2010 German Bakery blast case today.

• German Bakery blast case: Mirza Himayat Baig found guilty by Pune court

  A Pune court has convicted Mirza Himayat Baig, the only man arrested for the German Bakery terror attack in Pune. He will be sentenced on April 18.

• German bakery blast: Pune court to give verdict today

  A court in Pune will give its verdict today on a man who allegedly plotted the bomb blast at the city's German Bakery in February 2010.