Mumbai serial blasts: SC stays execution of another convict

A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Aftab Alam also posted his appeal for hearing along with those of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt and other convicts in the case.

Earlier, Special Judge P D Kode, hearing TADA cases, had awarded capital punishment to Shiekh for throwing hand grenades in Mahim’s Fisher Colony during the seriel blasts. The blast killed three persons and injured six others.

While convicting 100 persons for their roles in the blasts, Judge Kode had awarded death sentence to 12 among them.

Earlier on January 28, the apex court had stayed the death sentence of Yakub Memon, brother of prime accused Tiger Memon. He was convicted for funding the terrorists, besides supplying weapons for them.

Mohammed Shoaib Ghansar was yet another convict facing gallows who had approached the apex court. The court stayed his sentence in February this year.

Ghansar, who had parked a scooter laden with explosives opposite Bombay Stock Exchange, triggered the blast which claimed the lives of 17 persons and injured 57 others.

Besides Yakub Memon, Ghansar and Sheikh, the others who are on the death row are Abdul Ghani Turk, Mushtaq Musa Tarani, Pervez Sheikh, Asgar Mukadam, Shahnawaz Qureshi, Iqbal Yusuf Shaikh, Feroz Malik, Abdul Khan and Farooq Pawle.