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March 10, 1993
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Yakub Memon and family flees from Mumbai
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March 12, 1993
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Series of powerful blasts rip Mumbai through 13 places killing 257 people and injuring 713
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March 14, 1993
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The breakthrough in the investigation is achieved with the recovery of an RDX-laden Maruti van registered in the name of Tiger Memon's sister-in-law.
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March 18, 1993
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First arrest: Tiger Memon's manager Asgar Mukadam held
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April 19, 1993
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Sanjay Dutt arrested on his return form from Mauritius on charges of illegal possession of a 9mm pistol and AK-56 rifle and ammunition
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April 28, 1993
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Dutt confesses about possession of arms and later destroying it
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May 5, 1993
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Bombay High Court (HC) grants bail to Dutt
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November 4, 1993
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Mumbai crime branch files a 10,000 page charge sheet naming 189 accused, including Dutt
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November 19, 1993
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CBI takes over the case
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April 1, 1994
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TADA court shifts from city sessions and civil court to a separate building on the premises of Arthur Road Jail, Byculla
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April 10, 1994
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26 accused discharged by TADA court; charges framed against others. Supreme Court discharges travel agent Abu Asim Azmi and Amjed Meher Baux
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April 19, 1994
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Trial begins
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July 4, 1994
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Trial court cancels Dutt’s bail, arrests him
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August 5, 1994
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CBI claims that Yakub has been arrested from New Delhi, however he claims he willingly gave himself up in Nepal on July 28,1994
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October 14, 1994
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SC grants bail to Dutt which is later cancelled by the trial court.
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November 20, 1994
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Dutt takes back his confession.
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April-June 1995
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Charges framed against accused
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June 30, 1995
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Two accused Mohammed Khatlab and Usman Jan Khan turn approvers
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June 30, 1995
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First witness of 684 examined
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October 14, 1995
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Dutt granted bail by SC
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March 23, 1996
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Judge JN Patel transferred and elevated to the Bombay HC
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March 29, 1996
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PD Kode takes over trial from JN Patel
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July 1999
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Yakub writes to India’s SC seeking relief from the case. In his letter, he says he voluntarily returned to India.
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October 2000
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Examination of 684 prosecution witnesses ends.
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August 9, 2001
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Prosecution begins arguments.
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October 18, 2001
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Prosecution completes arguments.
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November 9, 2001
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Defence begins arguments.
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August 22, 2002
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Defence completes arguments.
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Feb-Mar 2003
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Ejaz Pathan and Mustafa Dossa deported from Dubai and court decides to separate gangster Mustafa Dossa’s trial in the case.
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September 2003
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Trial ends. Court reserves judgement.
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November 2005
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Abu Salem extradited from Portugal. Trial separated. He is accused of transporting weapons from Gujarat to Mumbai.
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June 13, 2006
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Abu Salem’s trial separated
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August 10, 2006
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Judge PD Kode announces ‘September 12’ as the judgement day.
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September 12, 2006
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TADA court pronounced verdict. 4 members of Memon family held guilty.
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November 2006
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Dutt gets convicted under Arms Act and acquitted uner TADA.
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May 9, 2007
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Court formally acquits 23 accused
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July 18, 2007
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First death penalties in the case for Parvez Nazir Shaikh, Mushtaq Tarani and Abdul Gani Turk pronounced
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July 31, 2007
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Justice PD Kode wraps up the 14 year long case. Dutt six years rigorous imprisonment.
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August 20, 2007
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Dutt appeals against the sentence, moves to SC
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November 1, 2011
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SC begins hearing on appeals filed by Dutt and 100 other convicts as well as the state.
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August 29, 2012
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SC reserves its order on the appeals.
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March 21, 2013
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SC upholds death sentence of convict Yakub Memon, brother of Tiger Memon, and commutes death sentence of 10 convicts to life term. Life imprisonment of 16 of 18 convicts also upheld
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May 16, 2013
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Sanjay Dutt surrenders before the TADA court. He is later taken to Arthur Road jail. Four other convicts -- Yusuf Nulwalla, Kersi Adajania, Essa Memon, and Altaf Syed -- also surrender the same day.
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May 22, 2013
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Sanjay Dutt is secretly shifted to Yerawada Jail and is given qaidi number C- 16656
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October 2013
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Yakub Memon apply for presidential pardon
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April 11, 2014
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President Pranab Mukherjee rejects Yakub's mercy plea.
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May 21, 2014
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The mercy plea of Memon is rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee
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June 2, 2014
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The SC stays the execution of Memon on plea seeking review petitions in death cases to be heard in open court instead of chambers.
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June 19, 2014
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The CBI files a supplementary chargesheet against one of the under-trials, Feroz Rashid Khan, in order to disprove his claim of mistaken identity who claimed that his name was 'Hamza' and not Firoz Khan alias Firoz Taklya.
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July 15, 2014
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The SC reserves its order on the mercy plea of Memon seeking to convert penalty into life term
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September 26, 2014
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SC stays Memon’s execution and issues notices on his petition seeking an open court hearing of his plea for a review of the death sentence
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April 9, 2015
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SC bench dismisses Yakub's plea
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May 2015
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Yakub Memon files a curative petition seeking justice against death sentence
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July 21, 2015
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SC rejects Yakub's curative petition. He would be hanged on July 30, 2015
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July 21, 2015
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Yakub then files mercy petition to Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao. SC rejects Yakub Memon’s petition.
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July 23, 2015
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Memon moves the SC seeking a stay on the execution of his death sentence
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July 26, 2015
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270 eminent personalities including eight leading jurists and nine MPs file a plea before President Pranab Mukherjee seeking mercy and stay against execution of Yakub Memon
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July 28, 2015
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SC refers the petition challenging Yakub's death warrant to a three member bench following a split verdict by a two-judge bench
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July 29, 2015
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The three member bench rejects Yakub's plea seeking and upholds the death warrant
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July 30, 2015
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Yakub Memon is hanged
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February 25, 2016
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Dutt released from Yerwada jail.
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May 29, 2017
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The TADA court announces June 16 as the date for pronouncement of judgement on trial against Abu Salem and other six accused.
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June 16, 2017
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TADA court finds Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa and Mohammed Dossa guilty of murder and conspiracy in connection with 1993 Mumbai blast case. The court also convicts Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan, and Karimullah Sheikh under charges of conspiracy and murder under sections of IPC, TADA and Explosives Act. The court convicts Tahir Merchant in the case.
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