New Delhi: After 14 years of investigation and trial, a special TADA Court in Mumbai on Wednesday, formally set free all the 23 accused who were earlier acquitted of their involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
However, of the 23 acquitted, three - Hanifa Abdul Razak Memon, matriarch of the Memon family who is physically unfit, Devidas Ghule and Mohammed Ahmed Mansoor Shoaib Ahmed - were not present in court.
The names of the others who have been set free are - Ashfaq Havaldar, Moinuddin Abdul Qadar, Shakeel Shahabuddin Shaikh, Anant Bhoir, Fasal Rehman Abdul Khan, Ismail Patel, Krishna Mokal, Krishna Pingle, Manohar More, Mansoor Ahmed Qureshi, Ruksana Zariwala, Ismail Qadri, Shaikh Babulal Kasam Shaikh, Sultan-e-Romgul, Ajay Marwah, Abdul Aziz Qadar, Mohammed Iqbal Ibrahim and Mohammed Ibrahim Khan.
“I have lost 14 years, who will account for that. The Andheri court had acquitted me on the basis of just a statement, while here it took 13 years,” Abdul Aziz told CNN-IBN.
The court had asked all convicted, including perhaps the most talked about convict Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt - convicted of possessing illegal weapons, but acquitted of conspiracy charges, to be present in the court on Wednesday.
The serial blasts of March 12 1993 had left 257 people dead and over 700 people injured.
(With inputs from PTI)
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