93 Serial Blasts Verdict: Four Of Memon Family Convicted

More than 13 years after the 1993 Mumbai blasts, the special TADA court has convicted four members of the Memon family - Yakub, Essa, Rubina and Yusuf on charges of conspiring and abetting acts of terror and face jail terms ranging from a minimum of five years to life imprisonment. The main accused including Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel, Anees Ibrahim, Mushtaq Memon, and Tiger Memon are among the 35 others, who are yet to be brought to book.

After the blasts, the family members of Tiger, including Yakub, had escaped to Dubai and then to Pakistan. Except Tiger and his brother Ayub, the entire family returned to India and they were arrested by CBI in 1994.

Meanwhile the verdict involving actor Sanjay Dutt who is charged with possessing an AK-56 rifle and later destroying it with the help of his friends is expected to take at least a month's time as according to public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam "The court has adopted a well-thought-out strategy to deliver the verdict in a staggered manner and the judgment would come in stages."

There are 123 accused and the court has recorded over 13,000 pages of oral evidence, 7,000 pages of documentary evidence, 135 confessions and 686 witness statements. The case has been on for 13 years now.