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1st LD Writethru: Mumbai attacks plotter, 6 others get life term in 2006 arms haul case

Xinhua, August 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

An Indian special court Tuesday sentenced to life in jail seven terrorists, including 2008 Mumbai terror attacks' plotter Abu Jundal, in a 2006 arms haul case.

The court had last week convicted 12 people in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case. While seven, including Abu Jundal who was deported from Saudi Arabia in 2012, were given life term, others got off with lesser jail terms.

In fact, the 12 were convicted after the special court accepted the prosecution's argument that they wanted to strike terror and attack leaders, including then Chief Minister of the western state of Gujarat and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as an act of revenge for the 2002 communal riots.

The arms haul was made on May 8, 2006, when cops chased down two vehicles near Aurangabad in the western state of Maharashtra and arrested three men, while Jundal managed to give cops the slip. A huge cache of arms and explosives were also recovered.

Trial in the case started in March 2013. Some 10 other accused were acquitted in the case, while others faced trial and were convicted.

Jundal was also the plotter of the 2008 Mumbai massacre, in which 10 Pakistani terrorists had entered Mumbai through sea route and carried out the coordinated attacks. Some 170 people, including six foreign nationals, were killed and 300 others sustained injuries in the mayhem. Endit