Fourteen years after 56 persons were killed and over 200 injured in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, a Special Court on Friday awarded death penalty to 38 convicts and sentenced 11 others to life imprisonment.
2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts AHMEDABAD, Feb 18: A special court here today awarded death penalty to 38 convicts and sentenced 11 others to life imprisonment in the case of 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured. This is for the first time that so many convicts have been handed down death sentence by any court at one go. In January 1998, a TADA court in Tamil Nadu had awarded capital punishment to all […]
Safdar Nagori, key conspirator of Ahmedabad blasts, remorseless after death penalty - Nagori was accused of collecting funds for acquiring explosives and for other illegal activities of SIMI related to the Ahmedabad blasts.