INDIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH

06 August 2009 :

three people, including a woman, were sentenced to death for their involvement in two bombings in Mumbai, India, in August 2003. Fifty six people were killed and 244 were injured in the bombings in Ghatkopar and at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar.
Mohammed Hanif Sayed, his wife Fahimda and Ashrat Ansari were sentenced to death by a special Prevention of Terrorism Act court.

(Sources: Business Standard, 06/08/2009)

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