Mumbai Blasts
Bomb plotter Memon to die
Afp, Mumbai
An anti-terror court in India yesterday sentenced to death one of the main conspirators behind serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people, prosecutors said. Yaqub Memon, the brother of the alleged main plotter and fugitive Tiger Memon, faces the gallows while his brothers Essa and Yusuf and sister-in-law Rubina were each given life sentences. The "Black Friday" attacks, which also injured more than 800 people, were believed to have been staged by Mumbai's Muslim-dominated underworld in retaliation for deadly Hindu-Muslim clashes a few months earlier. "The court gave (the) death sentence to Yaqub for distributing funds and assisting acts of terror," chief prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
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