4 sentenced to death for 2013 Gandhi Maidan blasts in Patna

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | November 01, 2021 IST

Patna, Nov 1: Special NIA judge Gurwinder Singh Malhotra on Monday sentenced four of the nine men convicted for the 2013 serial blasts at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan to death and the five other convicts to prison terms ranging from life to seven years. Six people were killed and 90 injured in the explosions after seven blasts went off on October 27, 2013, right before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, was to reach the venue to address an election meeting. Capital punishment was awarded to Imtiyaz Ansari, Haider Ali alias Abdullah alias “Black Beauty”, Noman Ansari and Mohammed Mujibullah Ansari. Umar Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureshi were sentenced to life imprisonment, Ahmed Hussain and Feroz Aslam were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment while Mohammed Iftekhar Alam was awarded a seven-year prison term. Five of the convicts - Haider Ali, alias Black Beauty, Imtiaz Ansari, Umer Siddique, Azharuddin Qureshi and Mujibullah Ansari - are already serving life terms for the Bodh Gaya Mahabodhi blasts just over three months before the October 27, 2013, attack on Modi’s election rally. The nine were convicted on October 27 by the special NIA judge for planting and detonating the explosions.

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