Stay on the death sentence of 2 mumbai blast convicts

The Supreme Court has today stayed the death penalty of two 1993 Mumbai blasts convicts who were awarded the capital punishment by a TADA court in July 2007. Hearing the petitions filed by Asgar Yusuf Mukadam and Mohammed Mushtaq Musa Tarani against the verdict, the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan issued notices to Maharashtra government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Asgar Mukadam and Musa Tarani were sentenced to death for planting RDX filled vehicles at the explosion sites on the fateful day of March 1993 that killed 10 people and injured 36.

Hearing other petitions filed in relation to the case, the apex court also issued notices to the Mumbai government and CBI on bail petitions filed by three other convicts of the blasts - Suleman Mohammed Basam Ghawake, Bashir Ahmed Usman Gani and Dawood Phanse.

Thirteen serial blasts rocked Mumbai on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people and injuring around 1400. Around hundred people were convicted in the case including Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt who was sentenced for six years. Presently he is out on bail.

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