Via PTI
GHAZIABAD: 16 years after serial bomb blasts rocked the holy town of Varanasi, terrorist Waliullah used to be held accountable through a Ghaziabad court docket in two circumstances on Saturday.
The quantum of punishment might be pronounced on June 6.
The blasts on the Sankat Mochan temple and the cantonment railway station on March 7, 2006 had claimed a minimum of 20 lives and left over 100 injured.
District Classes Pass judgement on Jitendra Kumar Sinha convicted Waliullah in two circumstances that have been lodged below IPC sections of homicide, try to homicide and mutilation and below the Explosives Act, district govt suggest Rajesh Sharma instructed PTI.
The accused has acquitted in a single case because of insufficient proof, he mentioned.
“The punishment might be pronounced on June 6 at 2 pm,” Sharma mentioned.
On seventh March 2006, the 1st blast came about at 6.15 pm within the Sankat Mochak temple within the Lanka police station.
After quarter-hour, a bomb exploded out of doors the firstclass retiring room at Varanasi cantonment railway station.
At the identical day, a cooker bomb used to be additionally discovered close to the railings of a railway crossing in DashmaVedh police station.
Attorneys in Varanasi had refused to plead the case.
The Allahabad Top Courtroom had transferred the case to the Ghaziabad district court docket.
In all 3 circumstances, 121 witnesses have been produced ahead of the court docket.
In April 2006, the particular activity pressure, which used to be investigating the blasts, had claimed that he used to be related to a terrorist outfit in Bangladesh Harkat-ul-jehad Al Islami and used to be the mastermind at the back of the blasts.