New Delhi, January 17
A Delhi court today convicted seven persons, including two Pakistanis, in connection with a string of blasts across north India in 1997 in which 17 persons were killed and nearly 300 injured.
The Pakistanis — Azad Mohammed and Mohd Hussain — were associated with the militant outfit Lashker-e-Taiba.
The others convicted are Amir Khan, Mohd Shakil, Abdul Bagi, Mohd Umar Ali and Mohd Abdul Qasim. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced tomorrow.
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Sessions Judge Rajiv Mehra found the two Pakistanis along with Khan, Shakil and Bagi guilty of waging war against the country.
The series of blasts in 1997 had rocked the northern Indian cities of Delhi, Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana, Kanpur and Varanasi.
In the same case, eight other accused were convicted in the year 2003 after they had pleaded guilty.
Five other accused were discharged by the court for want of evidence.
— PTI
