Capital punishment for 38 in Ahmedabad serial blasts case

Team News Riveting

Ahmedabad, February 18

A special court here on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case.

In the 20 serial explosions had ripped through the city on July 26, 2008, 56 people were killed while over 200 were injured.

Special court judge AR Patel also sentenced 11 other convicts in the case to life imprisonment till their death.

On February 8, the court had convicted 49 accused and acquitted 28 others in the case.

The court had concluded the trial against 77 accused in September last year. Of the 78 accused on trial, one had turned approver.

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