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| Following is the chronology of events in the TADA court trial into serial bomb blasts that ripped through Mumbai on March 12, 1993 killing 257 people and injuring 713.
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| March 12, 1993: Ten blasts and two incidents of hand-grenade throwing take place in Mumbai
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| November 4, 1993 : Over 10,000-page long primary chargesheet filed against 189 accused including actor Sanjay Dutt.
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| November 19, 1993 : The case is handed over to the CBI.
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| April 1, 1994 : The TADA court shifted from the city sessions and civil court to a separate building inside the premises of the Central Jail at Arthur Road.
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| April 10, 1995 : 26 accused discharged by the TADA Court and charges framed against the remaining accused. Supreme Court discharges two more accused travel agent Abu Asim Azmi (Samajwadi Party former MP) and Amjed Meher Baux.
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| April 19, 1995 : Trial in the case commences.
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| April-June 1995 : Charges framed against the accused.
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| June 30, 1995 : Two accused, Mohammed Jameel and Usman Jan Khan, turn approvers in the case.
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| October 14, 1995 : Sanjay Dutt arrested on April 19, 1993, granted bail by the Supreme Court.
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| March 23, 1996 : Judge J N Patel transfered and elevated as a High Court judge.
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| March 29, 1995 : P D Kode designated as a special TADA judge.
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| October 2000 : Examination of 684 prosecution witnesses ends.
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| March 9-July 18, 2001 : The accused persons' statements recorded.
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| August 9, 2001 : Prosecution begins arguments in the case.
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| October 18, 2001 : Prosecution completes arguments
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| November 9, 2001 : Defence starts arguments
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| August 22, 2002 : Defence closes arguments
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| February 20, 2003 : Dawood gang member Ejaz Pathan produced in court.
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| March 20, 2003 : Mustafa Dossa's remand proceedings and trial separated
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| September 2003 : Trial ends
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| June 13, 2006 : Extradited gangster Abu Salem's trial separated.
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| August 10, 2006 : Judge P D Kode starts dictating the verdict and says the judgement will be pronounced on September 12.
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| September 12, 2006 : The Court starts delievering the judgement, pronounces four members of the Memon family guilty, acquits three.
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| November 28, 2006: Actor Sanjay Dutt convicted under Arms Act, bail extended
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| May 18, 2007: Judge Pramod Kode starts pronouncement of Sentences
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| Jun 19, 2007: Pronouncement stayed as some convicts Want reference to Supreme Court for Challenging validity of TADA following May 18 observation of SC Judge Markandey Katju in another case
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| Jun 24, 2007: TADA Judge Pramod Kode falls and fractures His arm, sentencing adjourned further
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| Jul 16, 2007: Kode rejects application to refer case To Supreme Court
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| Jul 18, 2007: First of the death sentences awarded
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| Jul 27, 2007:Memon family sentenced, Yakub gets death
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| jul 31, 2007: Sanjay Dutt and two others sentenced for Illegal possesion of arms. Dutt gets six Years RI. Rusi Mulla is freed under POA.
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Sentencing in the trial ends. (PTI)
Updated at 1300 hrs: Special TADA court said no reports called from probation officer regarding Sanjay Dutt and two others under Probation of Offenders Act.
TADA Judge P D Kode said Dutt committed a chain of crime.
Rusi Mulla, convicted for aiding actor Sanjay Dutt to destroy an AK-56 rifle, gets the benefit of Probation of Offenders Act. Mulla would be released on payment of a bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of the same amount. (PTI) |
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