Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The timing and locations of the bombs that went off at two hospitals in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008, were chosen with an aim to kill the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, then home minister Amit Shah, MLAs, relatives of patients and others assuming they would rush to these hospitals to attend to people injured in bombings in other areas, the special court noted in its verdict sentencing 38 Indian Mujahideen cadres to death and giving life terms to 11 others. India News | IM Wanted to Kill then Guj CM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Other People by Planting Bombs at Two Ahmedabad Hospitals in 2008: Court.