3 sentenced to death in ’93 blasts
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Three Muslim men were sentenced to death for planting bombs that ripped through India’s financial capital in 1993, killing 257 people.
Parvez Shaikh, Mushtaq Tarani and Abdul Ghani Turk were convicted of planting explosives in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, on March 12, 1993.
These were the first death sentences in the bombings.
More than 100 people were convicted of involvement in the plot, thought to be revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving hundreds dead, most of them Muslims.
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