Despite the recommendations of the POTA review committee, a special court today refused to discharge two persons accused of conspiring in the twin blasts in the city on August 25, 2003. The court said there was sufficient evidence against them.Hearing the plea of accused, Mohammed Ansari alias Usman Ladduwala and Mohammed Ansar Shaikh alias Hasan Batterywala, designated POTA judge A.P. Bhangale agreed with prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam that there was enough evidence against the duo. .The prosecutor, however, argued that the police had found RDX and detonators from the residence of the two accused after the blasts. Prosecutor Nikam also told the court that the police had relied upon statements of witnesses who said both accused had remarked that they would create more such upheavals in the future.
