Mumbai: The TADA court on Wednesday held three accused, among them a father-son duo, guilty of helping prime conspirator Tiger Memon in carrying out the serial bomb blasts in the metropolis in 1993.
Accused number 79 Issaq Mohammad Hajwane, his son Sikander and a third man Shahnawaz were held guilty under various provisions of TADA (P) Act.
Hajwane was charged for conspiracy and under the TADA Act and the Arms Act for weapons training at Sandheri, in coastal Raigad district, and carrying 13 hand grenades, which were later dumped in the sea, near Gandhawadi village in Raigad, where the explosives used in the blasts had landed.
Accused number 106 Shahnawaz Dadamiya and accused number 111 Sikander Issaq Hajwane were also charged under Section 3 (3) of the TADA Act for weapons training at Sandheri and for aiding and abetting terrorist acts.
Soon after the verdict, they were taken into custody and their bail bonds cancelled though Issaq told the court, "I have not committed any offence. I am an aged person."
Judge P D Kode told him to say whatever he wants to say on Thursday.
Sikander, after hearing the verdict, told the judge "you may send me to jail or to the gallows. The police have falsely implicated me in the case. They are to be blamed, not me".
Public Prosecutor Ujwal Nikam said, "The court has held three accused guilty. Infact, all the three had held training camps at Sandheri for training the co-accused in the bomb blasts.”
The judge accepted the confessions of other accused implicating Issaq and also the evidence of two eye witnesses who had identified Issaq.
He was also found guilty under sections 120 (b) IPC (conspiracy) and 201 IPC (screening evidence).
(With inputs from PTI)
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