Court convicts 5 accused in 2013 Bodh Gaya serial blasts case

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Patna :  A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on May 25, 2018, convicted five accused belonging to terror group Indian Mujahideen in the 2013 serial blasts case at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district in which several persons were injured.

The court held all the five accused : Imtiyaz Ansari, Haider Ali, Mujib Ullah, Omair Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureishi, guilty in the case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activity (Prevention) Act and the Explosives Act. The court would pronounce quantum of punishment on May 31, 2018.
Bodh Gaya was rocked by a series of explosions on the morning of July 7, 2013, which had left a number of people injured.

A sixth accused in the case, Taufiq Ahmed, was less than 18 years of age and sentenced to three years in Remand Home in 2017 by a juvenile court, which found him guilty of involvement in the case.

All the six accused have also been associated with banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and are facing trial in the Patna blasts case of October 2013, when Patna  Gandhi Maidan was rocked by explosions where an election rally of Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat chief minister and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, was underway.