A special court will deliver its verdict against seven accused in the part-two trial of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, including Abu Salem and Mustafa Dossa, the key henchmen of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, on June 16.
After rejecting the application pronouncement of the verdict after Ramzan, Additional Sessions Judge GA Sanap, who presides over a special court set up under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), on Monday fixed June 16 as the date for delivery of the verdict.
The seven accused, who faced trial in the second part of the case, are: Abu Salem and Mustafa Dossa, Mohammed Tahir Merchant, alias Tahir Merchant alias Tahir Taklya, Abdul Qayyum, Karimullah Khan, and Riyaz Siddiqui.
Then a key aide of Dawood, Salem played an active role in the serial blasts, in which 257 people were killed and 713 others injured.
Salem was part of Dawood’s core team that hatched the conspiracy to engineer simultaneous blasts at 13 locations across Mumbai on March 12, 1993. It was he who had supplied the Kalashnikov rifle to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.
Dossa, who was deported from UAE on March 20, 2003 had attended the conspiracy meetings.