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2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts AHMEDABAD, Feb 18: A special court here today awarded death penalty to 38 convicts and sentenced 11 others to life imprisonment in the case of 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured. This is for the first time that so many convicts have been handed down death sentence by any court at one go. In January 1998, a TADA court in Tamil Nadu had awarded capital punishment to all […]

Eleven other Indian Mujahideen members have been sentenced to life imprisonment

A special court here on Friday awarded death penalty to 38 convicts and sentenced 11 others to life imprisonment in the case of 2008 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 minutes.

The pronouncement of the quantum of punishment by Justice A. R. Patel came nearly 14 years after the deadly blasts.