Mumbai, Nov 14 (IANS) A special court here Tuesday found Ehsan Mohammad Tufel Qureshi guilty of complicity in the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai but acquitted another accused, Fasal Rehman Khan, for lack of evidence.

The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court found Qureshi guilty of possessing a Mauser pistol, which was part of the consignment smuggled by absconding prime accused Tiger Memon to engineer the serial blasts.

Delivering the judgment, Special Judge Pramod Kode said co-accused Firoz Amani Malik had sold the pistol to Quereshi for Rs.50,000 and had received a part-payment of Rs.5,000. Qureshi had then concealed the weapon in Mahim creek, which was later recovered by police.

"Accused number 122, Ehsan Mohammad Tufel Qureshi was found guilty under Section 5 of TADA for possession of weapon in notified area of Mumbai and under the provisions of Arms Act. But he was not found guilty under Section 3(3) of TADA for aiding and abetting a terrorist act," the court said.

"There was no evidence to suggest that he had links with the other accused for aiding and abetting terrorist act."

The court, however, did not find Khan guilty in the case.

"The police had not recorded any confessional statement of accused number 76, Fasal Rehman Khan, nor was he properly named by the co-accused in the case. Hence, he is acquitted of charges under Section 3(3) of the TADA and Sections 3, 7 and 25 of the Arms Act for lack of evidence," the judge said.

Meanwhile, the special court Tuesday postponed pronouncing its verdict about Ahmed Shah alias Salim Durrani, the only accused in the case charged of harbouring prime conspirators at his palatial house in Tonk in Rajasthan, and Aziz Sheikh, who is involved in the same case, till Wednesday.

Shah, a Rhodes scholar and Jan Morcha party president in Mumbai, made an application in the court that he wanted to take his wife to a hospital for an eye treatment.

He pleaded that he hailed from Rajasthan and there was no other family member in the city to take care of his wife and produced a medical certificates before the court.

The judge allowed his plea and adjourned pronouncing his verdict till Wednesday.

Both Shah and Khan are on bail and were directed by the court to appear before it Wednesday.

The March 12, 1993 serial blasts across the metropolis killed 257 people, injured hundreds and destroyed properties worth Rs.300 million.

After a long-drawn trial, the TADA court has been pronouncing verdicts since Sep 12. It has so far found 71 of the 123 accused on trial guilty while acquitting 21.