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Court halts death penalty for Mumbai bomber
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily suspended the capital punishment awarded to a convict for killing 88 people during the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai.
- IANS
- Published: 00:03 May 13, 2008
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily suspended the capital punishment awarded to a convict for killing 88 people during the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai.
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan stayed the death sentence of convict Abdul Ghani Turk following his petition challenging his conviction and sentence.
Turk was sentenced to death for parking a jeep filled with explosives near Century Bazaar in Mumbai and triggering a blast that killed 88 people and injured 159.
Turk is the sixth convict on the death row who has challenged his conviction and has got his sentence stayed.
Routine process
The higher court suspends the death sentence as a routine while admitting a convict's appeal against the conviction.
The apex court had stayed April 7 the death sentences of two convicts, Mohammad Mushtaq Moosa Tarani and Asgar Yusuf Mukadam.
Tarani was sentenced to death for planting an explosive-loaded scooter in Shaikh Memon Street that did not explode. He had also planted a bomb in Hotel Centaur, though there were no casualties in the explosion.
Mukadam was sentenced to death for planting a explosives-filled van at Plaza cinema in Mumbai. The explosion had killed ten people and injured 36.
The apex court had stayed April 4 the death sentence of Zakir Hussain Noor Mohammad Shaikh, condemned to the gallows for throwing a powerful bomb in Mahim's Fisher colony.
The blast triggered by Shaikh had killed three people and injured six others.
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