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2 Tiger aides guilty of abetting terror The last of the 1993 bombers was held guilty on Thursday by a special Tada court. Judge P D Kode, who is roll-calling a few accused everyday to deliver the verdict, held Imtiyaz Ghawte guilty of conspiracy in Mumbai's first terror attack on March 12, 1993, that killed 257 people and also for planting a scooter filled with RDX at Dhanji street in south Mumbai. The bomb, however, did not explode. The court convicted two accused and acquitted one more taking the tally of those convicted to 77 and those held not-guilty to 22. There are 24 more accused, including actor Sanjay Dutt, whose fate is yet to be decided. A hawala operator and an alleged henchman of absconding prime conspirator Tiger Memon, Moolchand Shah was convicted for abetting the blasts by mobilising funds for Tiger's operations under the code name 'hathi'. His confession and that of other co-accused was found to be true by Kode, who said there was also some "recovery"and evidence of the panchas against Shah who has been on bail for many years. Ghawte on the other hand was in jail for many years and was only this year let off on bail on serious health conditions. He was found to be guilty of aiding the blasts by participating in the arms landing operations at Shekhadi in Raigad, but absolved of the charge of filling in RDX into vehicles a night before the blasts at Memon's house in Mahim. On a request made by Ghawte's lawyer Farhana Shah, the court granted him time till November 29 to surrender on health grounds. Murad Khan, the third accused who could return home as an acquitted man, was muttering a prayer while he stood in the dock. He had been absconding till April 1994 and his lawyer O A Siddiqui said he had asked him to surrender while in Rajasthan. He was charged with having gone to Dubai en-route to Pakistan for weapons training, but the trip to Pakistan never materialised due to glitches in the travel plan and the court said there was not enough evidence to prove that he was party to the blast conspiracy or that he abetted the crime. Both, Ghawte and Shah face a minimum punishment of five years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The CBI which is the prosecuting agency in the 1993 bomb blasts case had another victory of sorts on Thursday as it can now rely on evidence recorded earlier against accused Mustafa Dossa, who faces a separate trial after his deportation from Dubai in 2003. Dossa is the younger brother of key absconding accused Mohammed and is accused of facilitating Dighi arms landing at Raigad before the blasts. Deputy SP of CBI Raman Tyagi who was responsible in ensuring Dossa's return along with his senior and chief investigator of the case O P Chatwal were in the apex court. The Tada court had directed that the evidence recorded before Dossa's return could be relied on and Dossa had challenged the order. The Supreme Court said evidence that came in after Dossa was declared a proclaimed absconder in 1997 can be relied on and that Dossa can't seek benefit just because he was not arrested. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
