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Two more accused found guilty in '93 blasts
Mumbai, Sep 18 (IANS) Pronouncing another verdict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, a special court Monday pronounced Asghar Yusuf Mukadam alias Munna and Shahnawaz Qureshi guilty for their involvement in planting bombs at the Plaza cinema in Dadar in which 19 people were killed.
Mukadam, who was charged under 14 counts, had driven a red-coloured Maruti laden with RDX to the compound of Plaza cinema theatre. The explosion killed 19 people and left 39 injured.
Qureshi is the first accused to be found guilty of having received arms training in Pakistan. He was found guilty by special judge P.D. Kode under 12 charges.
Last week, judge Kode pronounced Mohammad Shoaib Ghansar, Mukadam's cousin, guilty for the Zaveri Bazaar blasts that killed 17 people and injured 57.
If convicted under various sections of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, the Indian Penal Code and the Explosives Act, all three could face death or life imprisonment.
The fate of another accused, Abdul Gani Ismail Turk, who had allegedly parked a jeep at the Century Bazar in Worli, will be decided shortly, according to special public prosecutor Ujjal Nikam.
The blast at Worli was the deadliest, as it resulted in the death of 113 people and injured 227.
Judge Kode also found the Memon brothers - Tiger, Yusuf, Essa and Yakub - and Yakub's sister-in-law, Rabina, guilty under anti-terror laws while acquitting three others of the family. They were the first eight in the list of 123 accused in the March 12, 1993, blasts that killed 257 and injured over 700.


