2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts: SC stays death sentence of convict
Ahmed Bawa Abbu Abubakar Barelvi, one of the 38 convicts, submitted that the case against him was based entirely on ‘conspiracy’.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death sentence awarded to one of the 38 persons convicted in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case, Bar and Bench reported.
Ahmed Bawa Abbu Abubakar Barelvi’s counsel submitted that his conviction was based entirely on “conspiracy”.
A bench was hearing Barelvi’s petition challenging the Gujarat High Court’s July 7 judgement upholding the death sentences handed to 38 of the 49 persons convicted in case.
On Thursday, the court also issued notice to the Gujarat government, seeking its response on Barelvi’s petition, Live Law reported.
Twenty-two explosions had ripped through the city on July 26, 2008, leaving 56 dead and more than 200 injured. In February 2022, a special court convicted the 49 persons, of whom 38 were sentenced to death, and the others were given life imprisonment.
Twenty-eight persons had been acquitted in the case and one person accused in the matter had turned an approver for the prosecution.
In July, the Gujarat High Court had upheld the death sentence handed to 38 of the 49 persons. It also upheld the sentence of life imprisonment given to the remaining 11 persons.
The blasts
The blasts on July 26, 2008, took place at the municipal-run Lallubhai Gordhandas Hospital, on buses, parked bicycles and in cars.
The police had claimed that persons associated with the banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen were responsible...
