PATNA: The Patna excessive court docket on Wednesday commuted the dying penalty of 4 individuals convicted for the 2013 blasts concentrating on Narendra Modi’s ballot rally in Patna to 30 years of imprisonment.
A division bench comprising justices Ashutosh Kumar and Jitendra Kumar additionally upheld the life imprisonment awarded to 2 different convicts by a particular NIA court docket.
A sequence of explosions had rocked Patna’s Gandhi Maidan and close by areas forward of and through a large rally that was addressed by Modi, then the Gujarat chief minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, within the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
A particular NIA court docket convicted 9 accused on Nov 1, 2021, of whom 4 – Imteyaz Alam, Haider Ali, Numan Ansari and Md Mujibullah Ansari – have been sentenced to dying, whereas two – Md Umer Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureshi – have been handed life imprisonment.
In its 83-page judgment, the HC bench stated “a plain and co-referential studying of proof makes it very clear that every one six appellants are responsible of offences of homicide and offences punishable beneath Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967 and Explosive Substances Act, 2001”.
The court docket, nevertheless, commuted the dying sentence of the 4 convicts, observing that they “are individuals of younger age with no established trans-border contacts, and there was no try by them to impress any retaliatory motion”.
