Trial in Ahmedabad serial blast case concludes after 13 years

September 03, 2021 16:35

Thirteen years after 56 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, a special court here has concluded the trial against 77 accused, while reserving its verdict in the matter.

The prosecution examined over 1,100 witnesses in the lengthy trial, which began in December 2009, over a year after a series of bomb blasts rocked the city.

Special judge A R Patel on Thursday announced the conclusion of the trial and reserved the order. At least 56 people were killed and over 200 injured in 21 bomb blasts that hit Ahmedabad city, within a span of 70 minutes, on July 26, 2008.

The police had claimed that people associated with the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM), a faction of radicals of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), were involved in the blasts. -- PTI

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