After 24 Years, Mumbai Blasts Convict Abu Salem Gets Life Sentence
Dawood Ibrahim, the chief accused of the 1993 Mumbai Blasts remains at large.
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A Mumbai court on Thursday awarded death sentence to Tahir Merchant and Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan, and life imprisonment to extradited gangster Abu Salem in the 1993 serial blasts case.
Besides Salem, the court also sentenced Karimullah Khan to life imprisonment in the case while awarding 10 years' sentence to the fifth convict, Riyaz Siddiqui.
A special TADA court had in June convicted six persons, including mastermind Mustafa Dossa and Salem, in the serial blasts case, 24 years after the attacks left 257 people dead in the country's financial capital.
It, however, let off accused Abdul Quayyum for want of evidence. This was the second leg of the trial.
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