1993 Surat blast: imprisonment for former Congress Minister
1993 Surat blasts convicts (from left) Hussain Ghadiyali, Mushtak Ibrahim Patel, Mohammed Surti, Iqbal Vadiwalla and Yousuf Dadu, who were sentenced to 20 years in jail by a special TADA Court in Surat on Saturday.
AHMEDABAD: A former Congress minister in Gujarat and five others were on Saturday sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for their involvement in a bomb blast in Surat in April 1993, in which a school girl was killed and about 30 others injured.
A special TADA court in Surat found Mohammad Surti and his accomplices guilty of the bomb blast and handed them the sentences. Seven others were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
The accused were alleged to have used government vehicles to transport bombs and other equipment for the blast. The TADA court had examined more than 300 witnesses and based its judgement on the Forensic Science Laboratory report on the blast.
In all, there were 24 accused, of whom at least five are still absconding while one died since then.
The bombs were claimed to have been exploded in Surat as a reprisal to communal riots in the wake of the demolition of Babri mosque in December 1992.
The demolition was followed by bloody communal riots in which the diamond and textile city of Surat was one of the worst affected.
In April 1993, two bombs were exploded, one at the Surat railway station when the Gujarat Express was at the platform, and another near a school on Varacha Road in which a schoolgirl was killed. All the accused are currently out on bail.
Also check: http://deshgujarat.com/2008/10/04/93-surat-blastsex-cong-minister-of-gujarat-gets-20-years-jail/
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