Ahmedabad bomb blasts plot involved plan to kill Modi Prosecutor
Ahmedabad Feb 18 PTI Plotters of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts had also planned to kill then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi besides creating mayhem one of the accused convicted for the bombings by a special court here had admitted before the court in the past the prosecution said on FridayThe special court on Friday sentenced 38 convicts to death and 11 others to life imprisonment till death for the Ahmedabad serial blasts which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured As many as 21 explosions had ripped through the city on July 26 2008 within a span of 70 minutesThe court had convicted 49 persons and acquitted 28 others in the case on February 8After the sentencing Public Prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt informed the media that a charge-sheet filed by the Gujarat police in 2010 had revealed that the convicts who were associated with terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had also planned to eliminate Modi who is now the prime ministerA charge-sheet filed in 2010 in the case contained a statement of an accused which he had given to the magistrate under section 164 of the CrPC In his statement the accused who is among those convicted had admitted that they had also hatched a plan to kill PM Modi who was Gujarats chief minister back then said BrahmbhattBrahmbhat did not gave the name of the convictA senior lawyer who had the opportunity to go through some part of the 7000-page judgement said the special court judge has also observed in his verdict that the convicts had tried to kill the then CM Narendra Modi the then Home Minister of Gujarat Amit Shah and local MLA Pradipsinh Jadeja But fortunately they survived Further the court noted that the accused had tried to target Modi and his then ministers including Shah Nitin Patel Anandiben Patel and MLA Jadeja because they were the elected government as per the Constitution he said citing the orderThe lawyer said the court has noted that nearly 30 accused were active members of the banned terror outfit SIMI which was later on activiated as Indian MujahideenWhile the accused persons held training camps in the forests of Gujarat and Kerala they assembled bombs in rented premises in cities like Ahmedabad Vadodara Bharuch Surat and PuneAs per the lawyer the court noted that the accused were hardened criminals and they deserve nothing less than death penalty for their terrorist acts Since these accused did not show any mercy for innocent people there was no need to show mercy to them said the lawyer citing the orderThese accused had incited Muslim youths in the name of taking revenge for the post-Godhra riots of 2002 to remove anti-Muslim government and to establish an Islamic rule said the lawyer citing the orderThe court noted that jihad is a pious word but these terrorist organisations have misused it to misguide Muslim youthsThe court also urged all Islamic organisations to come forward to stop the misuse of the word Jihad and boycott people who spread terror PTI PJT PD RSY RSY
Ahmedabad Feb 18 PTI Plotters of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts had also planned to kill then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi besides creating mayhem one of the accused convicted for the bombings by a special court here had admitted before the court in the past the prosecution said on FridayThe special court on Friday sentenced 38 convicts to death and 11 others to life imprisonment till death for the Ahmedabad serial blasts which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured As many as 21 explosions had ripped through the city on July 26 2008 within a span of 70 minutesThe court had convicted 49 persons and acquitted 28 others in the case on February 8After the sentencing Public Prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt informed the media that a charge-sheet filed by the Gujarat police in 2010 had revealed that the convicts who were associated with terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had also planned to eliminate Modi who is now the prime ministerA charge-sheet filed in 2010 in the case contained a statement of an accused which he had given to the magistrate under section 164 of the CrPC In his statement the accused who is among those convicted had admitted that they had also hatched a plan to kill PM Modi who was Gujarats chief minister back then said BrahmbhattBrahmbhat did not gave the name of the convictA senior lawyer who had the opportunity to go through some part of the 7000-page judgement said the special court judge has also observed in his verdict that the convicts had tried to kill the then CM Narendra Modi the then Home Minister of Gujarat Amit Shah and local MLA Pradipsinh Jadeja But fortunately they survived Further the court noted that the accused had tried to target Modi and his then ministers including Shah Nitin Patel Anandiben Patel and MLA Jadeja because they were the elected government as per the Constitution he said citing the orderThe lawyer said the court has noted that nearly 30 accused were active members of the banned terror outfit SIMI which was later on activiated as Indian MujahideenWhile the accused persons held training camps in the forests of Gujarat and Kerala they assembled bombs in rented premises in cities like Ahmedabad Vadodara Bharuch Surat and PuneAs per the lawyer the court noted that the accused were hardened criminals and they deserve nothing less than death penalty for their terrorist acts Since these accused did not show any mercy for innocent people there was no need to show mercy to them said the lawyer citing the orderThese accused had incited Muslim youths in the name of taking revenge for the post-Godhra riots of 2002 to remove anti-Muslim government and to establish an Islamic rule said the lawyer citing the orderThe court noted that jihad is a pious word but these terrorist organisations have misused it to misguide Muslim youthsThe court also urged all Islamic organisations to come forward to stop the misuse of the word Jihad and boycott people who spread terror PTI PJT PD RSY RSY
