2008 Jaipur Blast: Rajasthan High Court acquits four accused

 

The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday acquitted four accused in the deadly 2008 serial Jaipur blasts which claimed 71 lives and left over 180 injured. In December 2019, a trial court had sentenced the four accused to death.

On Wednesday, the high court freed all four and asked the chief secretary to probe the investigating officer in the case.

The verdict was pronounced by a division bench of Justices Pankaj Bhandari and Sameer Jain after approving 28 appeals. The court upheld the decision of the lower court to free one of the accused, identified as Shahbaz.

The four accused -- Mohammed Salman, Mohammed Saif, Sarwar Azmi and Saifurehman Ansari -- were found guilty and awarded capital punishment by a trial court in 2019.

Mohammed Saif was arrested in the blast in Manak Chowk police station. Sarwar Aazmi was arrested for his role in the blast at the Chandpole Hanuman temple. Mohammad Salman was accused of carrying out blasts in Sanganeri Hanuman temple. Saifurehman Ansari was accused of planting bombs at five different places.The police had registered eight FIRs in the case, with four in Kotwali and four in Manak Chowk police station. Statements of 1,293 witnesses were recorded by the prosecution. Jaipur lawyers refused to appear on behalf of the accused. Legal Aid appointed advocates Pekar Farooq and Suresh Vyas to represent the accused.

 

The case involved 24 witnesses produced by the defense side and 1,270 witnesses produced by the government.

THE DEADLY BLASTS

 

Jaipur was rocked by a series of deadly blasts on May 13, 2008, at multiple locations. The explosions killed 71 people and injured 185 others. One live bomb was recovered from a school bag on a bicycle near Ramchandra Temple and was defused by a bomb disposal squad.

A total of 13 people were arrested by police, out of which three are currently lodged in Hyderabad and Delhi jails while three others are still absconding. Two were killed in the Batla House encounter and four others were sent to Jaipur jail.

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