Terrorist Waliullah Khan held responsible in two circumstances of 2008 serial bomb blasts of Varanasi

By PTI

GHAZIABAD: Sixteen years after serial bomb blasts rocked the holy metropolis of Varanasi, terrorist Waliullah was held responsible by a Ghaziabad court docket in two circumstances on Saturday.

The quantum of punishment might be pronounced on June 6.

The blasts on the Sankat Mochan temple and the cantonment railway station on March 7, 2006 had claimed no less than 20 lives and left over 100 injured.

District Sessions Judge Jitendra Kumar Sinha convicted Waliullah in two circumstances which had been lodged beneath IPC sections of homicide, try and homicide and mutilation and beneath the Explosives Act, district authorities counsel Rajesh Sharma instructed PTI.

The accused has acquitted in a single case on account of insufficient proof, he mentioned.

“The punishment will be pronounced on June 6 at 2 pm,” Sharma mentioned.

On seventh March 2006, the primary blast occurred at 6.15 pm contained in the Sankat Mochak temple within the Lanka police station.

After quarter-hour, a bomb exploded outdoors the first-class retiring room at Varanasi cantonment railway station.

On the identical day, a cooker bomb was additionally discovered close to the railings of a railway crossing in DashmaVedh police station.

Lawyers in Varanasi had refused to plead the case.

The Allahabad High Court had transferred the case to the Ghaziabad district court docket.

In all three circumstances, 121 witnesses had been produced earlier than the court docket.

In April 2006, the particular job drive, which was investigating the blasts, had claimed that he was linked to a terrorist outfit in Bangladesh Harkat-ul-jehad Al Islami and was the mastermind behind the blasts.