Posted on 07/01/2006 8:35:14 AM PDT by An_Indian
July 01, 2006 13:08 IST
Last Updated: July 01, 2006 17:48 IST
The Prevention of Terrorism Act court on Saturday awarded death sentence to three persons in the 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack case.
Twenty-nine devotees, two National Security Guards commandos and two state commandos were killed and 81 injured in the attack that occurred on September 24, 2002.
The three who were sentenced to death are Chand Khan, one of the prime accused from Jammu and Kashmir, Adam Suleman Ajmeri and Abdul Kayum Mohammed Hussain Mansuri.
Another person Mohamed Salim Mohammed Anif Sheikh was awarded life imprisonment while two others Mufti Abdul Miya Yasim Miya Kadhri and Altaf Husain Asghar Hussain Malik were awarded 10 and five years of rigorous imprisonment respectively.
The designated POTA court Judge Sonia Gokani, while pronouncing the judgement, held all the three persons directly responsible for the killing of people in the temple.
The Akshardham temple, run by the Akshar Purshottam Swaminarayan Sansthan, was stormed by two Pakistan-based terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Tayiba, dressed in army uniforms.
The two opened indiscriminate fire on the devotees in the temple premises. The militants also lobbed grenades.
The NSG commandoes, after a night-long gun battle, killed the militants identified as Murtuza Hafiz Yasin and Ashrafali Mohammed Farooq claiming allegiance to Tehreeq-e-Qasas, a wing of LeT.
The court delivered the judgement in the high security Sabarmati jail and the proceedings were held in-camera.
There are 34 accused in the case, out of which police had arrested six, 26 are absconding and two were shot dead in the temple.
The police had submitted to the court that four absconders had fled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and nothing can be done to bring them back as they do not have photographs or passport details of the absconders.
The accused have given confessional statements under Section 32 of POTA, which has been admitted as evidence.
The court had framed charges against the accused under various sections of POTA, IPC, Arms Act and Explosive Substance Act for hatching criminal conspiracy and waging a war against the nation.
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a few pics from this incident:
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How anyone who reads the news can still think Islam is a religion of peace is beyond me.
Glad they got their just desserts.
Yeah round 'em all up and throw them in jail. Provide enough food for just one person so that they fight among themselves for the food and kill each other in the process. No Jihad = No 72 virgins in heaven. The last guy who survives gets solitary confinement where he ll go mad in a few years. No 72 virgins for him either. Blood-thirsty animals deserve extremely cruel deaths.
For a new comeer you sure go around giving gratuitous advice.
BAR-B-Q THE PIGS
Sadly these thugs will be left off clean thanks to our "exemplary" judicial system and human rights groups.
IF we give em a life term the puki dogs will hijack our planes and take it to some Banana republic and secure the release of those loons...Anyways they will not get the virgins. /relieved
Good point. We announce that they have been executed but keep them alive until they kill each other. So no hijackings and no virgins :).
Heh heh or keep them in separate cells so they have to go through a long agonizing wait for their non-existent virgins.
Just thought it would be more ironic letting these monsters loose on each other. So much for their Jihad and 72 virgins. We'll probably have a few perverts for jihadis who'll then go around b*ggering the others in jail. Definitely no 72 virgins for them :).
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