A chilling reconstruction of a late-night meeting in January 1993 at fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s Dubai residence, which was anchored in the confessional statement of a now-deceased accused, became a key reference statement for the Special TADA Court in Jamnagar that on Monday convicted 12 individuals in a case related to the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai. The meeting had set in motion a conspiracy to avenge the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition by unleashing coordinated terror on the “Hindu community” neighbourhoods in India, with a detailed plan to land RDX, automatic weapons and grenades on the Gujarat coast; the weapons were sourced from Pakistan, as per the 1994 confessional statement of Usmangani Noor Mohammad Merchant. Usmangani, who was in the “inner circles” of Dawood, was present at the said meeting.…