At 19:45 hrs on 13 March 2003 a bomb exploded as a train pulled into Mulund railway station. The bomb was placed in the first class ladies compartment and killed 10 people and injured 70. Among the ten killed were four women who were in the first class compartment and six men who were in the adjoining second class compartment. Two of the four women were police constables.
Seven years after a bomb ripped through a suburban train and killed many at Mulund in northeast Mumbai, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Monday traced and arrested in 2010.
The three blasts between December 2002 and March 2003 killed 12 people and injured over 130.
A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court convicted 10 accused including Saquid Nachen, former secretary of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and acquitted 3 in 2003 blasts.
According to the chargesheet, Ansari and Janab planted the bomb at McDonald’s near the Mumbai central station on December 6, 2002. On January 27, 2003, the two of them also planted a bomb at Monghibai road on a bicycle opposite the Jawahar book depot at Ville Parle. Ansari and Janab also planted two bombs in a general and a first class compartment in a Karjat bound train on March 13, 2003.
Adnan Mulla, Harroon Lohar and Nadeem Paloba have been acquitted for lack of evidence.
This case dithered for the longest time without reaching the trial stage.
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