Hyderabad twin blasts case: 2 get death penalty, 1 sentenced to life

Two of the three convicted in the Hyderabad twin blasts case have been awarded death sentence while the third has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), news agency ANI reported. Aneeq Sayeed, Ismail Chaudhary (both awarded death penalty) and Tariq Anjum (sentenced for life) were convicted in the 2007 Hyderabad twin blast case.

A court in Hyderabad today convicted Tariq Anjum, an alleged operative of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), guilty for providing shelter to the other accused. Aneeq Sayeed and Ismail Chaudhary were convicted on September



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Two other accused, Farooq Sharfuddin and Sadiq Ahmed Sheikh, were acquitted for lack of evidence while the fate of a fifth accused will be decided next week.

While 32 people were killed at Gokul Chat, a popular eatery, 10 others lost their lives at Lumbini Park, near State Secretariat, in near simultaneous blasts around 7.45 pm on August 25, 2007.

More than 50 were injured in the blasts.

The accused were arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad in October 2008. Three other accused including IM chief Riyaz Bhatkal and his brother Iqbal Bhatkal still remain at large.