Jaipur: A Then in the court Ajmer Abdul Karim alias Tunda, Irfan and Hamimuddin were charged on Thursday in connection with the 1993 serial bomb blasts on trains in Lucknow, Kanpur, Hyderabad, Surat and Mumbai.
The matter will now be heard in the TADA court under the relevant sections of the law. All three were produced in the court on Thursday amid tight security. The matter will now come up for hearing on October 25.
The terrorists were produced in the court and charged under relevant sections of TADA, Explosives Act, PDP Act and Railway Act. The court has ordered that before October 25, the list of witnesses will have to be presented in the court on behalf of the public prosecutor.
Advocate Abdul Rashid said that the hearing will be held on October 25. On the intervening night of December 5 and 6, 1993, the first anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, a series of explosions took place in six Rajdhani Express trains, killing two and injuring 22.
Terrorist Abdul Karim alias Tunda was lodged in Ghaziabad jail of UP. On 24 September, he was shifted from Ghaziabad to Ajmer. Tunda was caught from Nepal border in 2013. Two of Tunda’s accomplices Hamimuddin and Irfan alias Pappu were already lodged in Ajmer jail.
Tunda is a resident of Pilkhuwa town of Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh. He was an explosives expert of Lashkar-e-Taiba at the time of 1993 blasts.
Mumbai’s Jalis Ansari, Nanded’s Azam Gauri and Tunda had blasted trains in five major cities by forming an organization ‘Tanzeem Islam alias Muslim’ in 1993 to avenge the Babri demolition.
Tunda is also an accused in the 1996 case related to the blast in front of the police headquarters in Delhi. In the same year, Interpol had issued a red corner notice against him.
There are only three special courts across the country – in Mumbai, Ajmer and Srinagar – to try the accused under the TADA Act.
The matter will now be heard in the TADA court under the relevant sections of the law. All three were produced in the court on Thursday amid tight security. The matter will now come up for hearing on October 25.
The terrorists were produced in the court and charged under relevant sections of TADA, Explosives Act, PDP Act and Railway Act. The court has ordered that before October 25, the list of witnesses will have to be presented in the court on behalf of the public prosecutor.
Advocate Abdul Rashid said that the hearing will be held on October 25. On the intervening night of December 5 and 6, 1993, the first anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, a series of explosions took place in six Rajdhani Express trains, killing two and injuring 22.
Terrorist Abdul Karim alias Tunda was lodged in Ghaziabad jail of UP. On 24 September, he was shifted from Ghaziabad to Ajmer. Tunda was caught from Nepal border in 2013. Two of Tunda’s accomplices Hamimuddin and Irfan alias Pappu were already lodged in Ajmer jail.
Tunda is a resident of Pilkhuwa town of Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh. He was an explosives expert of Lashkar-e-Taiba at the time of 1993 blasts.
Mumbai’s Jalis Ansari, Nanded’s Azam Gauri and Tunda had blasted trains in five major cities by forming an organization ‘Tanzeem Islam alias Muslim’ in 1993 to avenge the Babri demolition.
Tunda is also an accused in the 1996 case related to the blast in front of the police headquarters in Delhi. In the same year, Interpol had issued a red corner notice against him.
There are only three special courts across the country – in Mumbai, Ajmer and Srinagar – to try the accused under the TADA Act.
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