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A third person accused in the 2007 twin bomb blast case in Hyderabad has been convicted by a court in the city on Monday, after two others involved in the crime were convicted on September 4.
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Tariq Anjum Ehsaan, the third accused was convicted by a Hyderabad court for giving shelter to the terrorists involved in the blasts.
A blast at a popular eatery, Gokul Chat on August 25, 2007, claimed the lives of 32 people and it was followed by the death of 10 more at the open theatre in Lumbini Park, which isn’t very far from the state’s secretariat.
The court has in its record, has been taking inputs from 170 witnesses in the case over a period of 11 years.
Five accused in the case, alleged to be members of the Indian Mujahideen were arrested by the Counter Intelligence (CI) wing of the Telangana Police after they had conducted their own investigation in the case.
On September 4, two out of these five were acquitted by the court.
The trial against the five accused was shifted from a court at the Nampally Court complex to a court hall in the premises of the Cherlapalli Central Prison earlier in June this year.
Charges of Section 302 (murder) and other relevant acts in the IPC, and parts of the Explosive Substances Act were imposed on the accused with relation to the twin bomb blasts and also with respect to the retrieval of the unexploded bomb in the Dilsuknagar area in Hyderabad.
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