Century Bazar accused pronounced guilty

Mumbai, Sep 19 (IANS) A special court on the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts Tuesday pronounced Abdul Gani Turk guilty of setting off explosions at Century Bazar in Worli area which killed 113 people.

Turk was the lone accused held guilty for the blasts by the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) court here. He was charged on four counts by special judge P.D. Kode.

The blast - the deadliest of the serial bombings - had also left 227 people injured. Turk has been found guilty of fitting vehicles with RDX and transporting arms and ammunition.

On Monday, the court pronounced Asghar Yusuf Mukadam alias Munna and Shahnawaz Qureshi guilty for their involvement in planting bombs at the Plaza cinema in Dadar in which 10 people were killed.

In the first verdicts in the case, the Memon brothers - Tiger, Yusuf, Essa and Yakub - and Yakub's sister-in-law, Rabina, were held guilty under anti-terror laws, while three others of the family were acquitted. They were the first eight in the list of 123 accused in the March 12, 1993, blasts that killed 257 and injured over 700.