NEW DELHI:>> Fourteen years after a blast rocked Lajpat Nagar market killing
13 people and injuring 39, a session court on Thursday convicted six
accused in the case, all belonging allegedly to a Kashmiri militant group.
The court also acquitted 4 others involved in the case due to lack of
evidence against them. Out of six convicted persons, four have been held
guilty for murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy. The two
others have been convicted for lesser offences like possession of explosives.
This is the first conviction ever in any of the blast cases that have been
heard in the capital. The case also involved Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Menon
as proclaimed offenders.
Those facing trial on various charges were Farooq Ahmed Khan, Mohd Naushad,
Mirza Iftikhar, Mohd Ali Bhatt, Mirza Nissar Hussain, Latif Ahmed Waza,
Syed Maqbool Shah, Javed Ahmed Khan and Abdul Gani and their woman
associate Farida Dar. All accused, except the woman, are in judicial custody.
District and sessions judge S P Garg had recently concluded hearing final
arguments in the case. During the arguments, Khalil Ansari, counsel for the
accused, had said they were innocent and had been framed in the case.
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