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Three held guilty for 2003 Mumbai twin blasts: Finally after long period of six years, the Mumbai special court of crime found guilty the three accused guilty. The accused Ashrat Ansari, Hanif Sayed and Fehnida Sayed were convicted twin blasts in Mumbai. They were charged as planting the bombs in two taxis which were exploded near the gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar. In that blast there were 52 innocents were killed and near about 184 were injured on August 25, 2003. This was the biggest blasts since 1993 blasts case. The conspiracy to attack on Mumbai was planned in Dubai. The prevention of terrorism Act (POTA) under the supervision of Judge MR Puranik held them guilty. The trio was caught by the police on July 28, 2003 when they planned to plant the bomb in a muinicipal bus in which two people were killed. The three accused are the members of Lashkar-e-Toiba and their acceptance about the blasts explore the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Panel code against accused:  The different panel code under which they found guilty are 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 120 (b) (conspiracy) besides section 3(4) (voluntary harbouring  a terrorist), 3(3) (Conspiracy) 427 (mischief causing damage), 3 (terrorist acts), 4 (possession of arms), 4(b) (possession of explosives) etc. of POTA. MR Puranik will hear the arguments of the defense and the prosecutor on the entirely case on the August 4. The prosecutor Ujjwal  Nikam said that the accused must be punished rigidly. He said they must get death as penalty. Confession of Three accused: The three accused accepted that the conspiracy was planned to save the Muslims. One of the accused confessed that they came to know that some Hindu leaders were planned against Muslim’s living in Gujarat in 2002. And thus we decided to take revenge. We were planned to set our main target to that position where lots of gujaratis are living. Attack on August 25, 2003: The three acussed along with the two daughters of Hanif and his wife hired a taxi on August 25, 2003 from where they lived to gateway of India with lots of RDX with them in taxi and left the bag in taxi and said thwy would be back after the lunch. From there they hired another taxi and went to zaveeri bazaar and plotted bomb near jewellary shop. The daughter of Hanif was just 16 years old and [...]

Couple found hanging in Noida: New Okhla Industrial Development Area (NOIDA) is known for its outsourcing IT services. Many software and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies have their offices in this city. This city is full of amenities. It is also known as Noida film city. No doubt Noida is famous for its IT sector but along with this it is always in news for some kind of unexpected or undesirable event. There are lots of hurtful crisis happened in Noida which are simply increase the heart-beat. There is daily at least one news about Noida accident in the newspaper.   To continue its series, the latest news is about two dead bodies found in Noida. These two bodies were found hanging on an electric pole near a water course and a tree. The distance between the tree and an electric pole is about 7 m. A man and a woman were hanging out in sector 15 of Noida. The age of both was about 26-27 years. It was a mystery who are they? The Noida police are still trying to identify the bodies. But according to one report both are husband and wife and from Pilibhit. The name of the deceased is Pappu Katiyar, a driver in a company. According o report the body of katiyar was hanging from an electric pole and his wife was hanging on the tree. According to Noida Police it is still not clear that whether it is the case of murder or suicide. They said it is cleared only after the post-mortem examination report which will they get very soon. SSP addressed reporters: The Noida Superintendent of police Ashok Pratap Singh addressed reporters and told that they got the information about hanging in early morning near about 6:30 am on July 27, 2009. He said after getting the information they immediately arrived to the destination to know what is happened actually. He also told that there were lots of people near the dead bodies but not a single person was able to identify the victim’s body. They all just saw the bodies in the morning and report to police station immediately. Noida police description: According to reliable sources of Noida police the bodies were in good position. That is there is not any kind of marks of injury on both bodies. They also told that Pratap Katiyal and Ashok Colony were written on [...]