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| 1993 Mumbai blasts: Ghansar found guilty | | | Mumbai, Sep 14 A key hitman of Tiger Memon, prime accused in the 1993 serial blasts that killed 257 people here, was today found guilty of committing terrorist acts by a designated TADA court, taking the number of persons convicted in the case to five.
The 43-year-old Mohammed Shoaib Ghansar had parked a RDX-laden scooter at Zaveri Bazaar jewellery hub that exploded killing 17 people and injured 57 on March 12, 1993.
Judge P D Kode found him guilty of conspiracy and murder as also under the provisions of TADA, various sections of IPC, Explosives Substances Act, Explosives Act and Damage to Properties Act.
The court also found Ghansar, a mechanic, guilty of stuffing RDX in vehicles at Tiger Memon's Al-Husseini Building which were used to carry out 13 explosions.
He is the fifth of the 123 accused in the case to be convicted. The court on Tuesday had found Tiger Memon's brothers Yakub, Yusuf and Essa and sister-in-law Rubina guilty in the case.
Like other four convicts, Ghansar, currently lodged in Arthur Road jail, is likely to face punishment ranging from five years to life and even death.
Clad in white kurta-pyjama, he seemed to be nervous and was seen holding prayer beads as he appeared in court.
The judge said although two witnesses had not identified Ghansar as the accused who had parked the scooter, he was being held guilty as his own confession recorded under section 15 of TADA (P) Act was accepted by the court.
He said the court had also accepted the circumstantial evidence adduced by the prosecution to prove Ghansar's guilt.
The court would hear arguments on quantum of sentence at a later stage. |
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