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1993 Mumbai blasts sentencing as it happened: Abu Salem gets life; Tahir Merchant, Feroz Khan get death penalty

By: Eastern Eye Staff

A special court in Mumbai on Thursday sentenced extradited gangster Abu Salem to life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The court also announced death penalty for Taher Merchant and Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, while Karimullah Khan was sentenced to life imprisonment. Riyaz Siddiqui, who had been found not guilty of conspiracy, was given a punishment of ten years’ of imprisonment.  A special TADA court in June had convicted all the accused, including mastermind Mustafa Dossa and Salem, in the blasts case, 24 years after it ripped through the financial capital of the country, killing 257 people and injuring many of them. The case…

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