Jamnagar, May 4 (PTI) A special TADA court in Jamnagar on Monday convicted 12 persons in a case related to the conspiracy of 1993 arms landing off the Gujarat coast linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to help avenge the Babri Masjid demolition, and acquitted 17 other accused.
Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court Judge RP Mogera convicted 12 accused, and sentenced 10 of them to five-year rigorous imprisonment, and two to seven-year RI, special public prosecutor Tushar Gokani said.
The case pertains to a conspiracy hatched by Ibrahim, later designated as an international terrorist, and his associates based in Dubai and Pakistan to avenge the December 6, 1992, demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya by smuggling a huge cache of weapons and explosives, including RDX, into India by sea, and creating mayhem and communal discord.
An FIR was registered at the Jamnagar B-division police station in July 1993, and the verdict comes nearly 33 years after an investigation that lasted for several decades, with the probe carried out by now retired IPS officers P K Jha and Satish Verma, and current CBI Special Director Manoj Shashidhar, Gokani said.
The accused, including Ibrahim, were booked under various sections of the TADA, the Indian Penal Code, the Arms Act, and the Explosives Substances Act. The investigation went on from 1993 till 2018, with a total 46 accused arrested and 15 others, including Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and Anees Ibrahim declared as absconders. PTI KA PD RSY
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