MUMBAI, Dec 4: A special court on Monday ended India's largest terrorism case by finding 100 people guilty out of 123 accused in the 1993 Mumbai bombings case after a decade of trials, the chief prosecutor said.
The court, headed by Judge Pramod Kode, convicted six people on Monday, taking the total number of convictions to 100. Another 23 were acquitted of any role in serial blasts across India's financial hub that killed 257 people.
The court convicted eight people for planting 13 bombs, of which 12 exploded across the city, including landmarks like the stock exchange.
At least 10 people were found guilty of being trained in terrorist camps across the border in Pakistan, while five policemen and four customs officials were found guilty of abetting in the conspiracy.
Sentencing for those convicted, including Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt for possessing weapons but not for a charge linked to the attacks, will be announced in January, chief prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
“This is for the first time in India's judicial history that 100 people have been found guilty of charges in a single case,” Nikam said.
The “Black Friday” attacks were allegedly masterminded by Mumbai’s underworld people in late 1993 for deadly Hindu-Muslim clashes a few months earlier.
The worst clashes were in Mumbai where 900 people died, with Muslims accounting for about two-thirds of the dead, according to an official report.
