Death sentence upheld by Rajasthan court in bomb blast case

A court in Dausa today upheld its previous judgment of capital punishment for Abdul Hamid, the convict in a 1996 bomb blast case, after reviewing the case on the direction of the Rajasthan High court.
Additional District Judge Alka Bansal upheld the judgment.
The court had pronounced its judgment to award death penalty to Hamid in September last year.
Hamid had, through his counsel, had appealed in the high court saying that the lower court did not hear the case point-wise, following which the high court gave directions to the lower court to hear and review the case again.
After completing the procedure, the lower court pronounced the judgment today.

While Hamid was awarded capital punishment, six others were given life imprisonment for the blast in a Rajasthan Roadways bus near Samleti in Dausa that left 14 people dead and 37 injured on May 22, 1996.
The bus was on its way to Bikaner from Agra.