The Supreme Court stayed the execution of Indian Mujahideen operative Ahmed Bawa in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case and sought Gujarat government’s response. The court also called for trial records after the Gujarat High Court upheld his death sentence earlier this year
The Gujarat High Court upheld the death sentences of Mohammed Akbar Ismail Chaudhary and Aneeq Shafique Sayeed in the Ahmedabad serial blasts case. The duo had earlier been sentenced to death by a Hyderabad court for their role in the 2007 twin bomb blasts
A division bench of Justice K. Lakshman and Justice P. Sree Sudhha dismissed the appeals filed by the convicts challenging the order of a special NIA court pronounced in 2016
