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Jamnagar TADA court convicts 12 in 1993 arms smuggling case linked to Mumbai serial blasts

The Indian Express·Aditi Raja·29 days ago
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More than three decades after a Pakistan-linked arms landing on Gujarat’s coast helped facilitate the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and other communal discord across the country, a Special TADA court in Jamnagar Monday convicted 12 conspirators, establishing official involvement of Pakistani marine and military officers in the smuggling operation tied to Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon. The verdict, delivered by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act Judge RP Mogera, brings partial closure to a case registered in July 1993 that involved a decades-long investigation and trial. Judge Mogera pronounced the long-awaited verdict in the case registered on July 15, 1993, under multiple sections of the TADA Act, the Indian Penal Code, the Arms Act, and the Explosives Substances Act. The court also acquitted 17 others. The detailed order and sentencing of the accused are awaited.…

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