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Mumbai 1993 blast case: CBI demands death penalty for convicts Tahir Merchant and Karimullah Khan

Press Trust of India • June 30, 2017, 22:43:05 IST
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The CBI on Friday demanded death penalty for two more convicts, Tahir Merchant and Karimullah Khan, in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

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Mumbai 1993 blast case: CBI demands death penalty for convicts Tahir Merchant and Karimullah Khan

Mumbai: The CBI on Friday demanded death penalty for two more convicts, Tahir Merchant and Karimullah Khan, in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. Special public prosecutor Deepak Salvi sought capital punishment for Tahir pointing out to the anti-terror court that the convict had developed a good “rapport” with Pakistani spy agency ISI and some Pakistani army officials and he was one of the “initiators” of the plot for serial blasts. [caption id=“attachment_3763359” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Reprentational image. AFP](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CBI-AFP3.jpg) Representational image. AFP[/caption] Arguing over the quantum of sentence for six convicts, Salvi had earlier demanded death for Mustafa Dossa and Firoz Khan. Dossa died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday. The prosecutor told the special TADA judge GA Sanap that following the post-Babri demolition riots in Mumbai, Merchant hatched a conspiracy with (absconding accused) Tiger Memon, and arranged visa, tickets and finance for sending men to Pakistan for arms training. “Merchant’s degree of culpability was highest in the offence and he played a pivotal role in hatching the conspiracy. He is one of the initiators of the conspiracy,” Salvi said. On criminal antecedents of Merchant, Salvi said he had a counterfeit currency case registered against him in Kochi, and had a good “rapport” with some officials of the Pakistani army as well as the ISI. Tiger Memon had entrusted the responsibility of arranging landing of arms and ammunition to Karimullah, who also helped one of the co-conspirators to travel to Pakistan for arms training, Salvi said. The family members of the blasts victims were waiting for justice for the last 24 years, he said. The TADA court on 16 June had convicted six accused including Dossa and the extradited gangster Abu Salem for murder, conspiracy and offences under the (now repealed) Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act. Riyaz Siddiqui was convicted only under TADA, while Abdul Quayyum was acquitted. As many as 257 people were killed in the coordinated blasts that ripped through the city on 12 March, 1993. In the earlier trial, the court had convicted one hundred accused. The trial of these seven men was separated as they were arrested later.

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