Four Mahim bombers in dock today

The Tada court, today, is likely to pronounce the punishments for four convicted in the 1993 serial blasts case for throwing hand-grenades at the Mahim fishermen’s colony.
The convicts had travelled to Mahim in a Maruti Van.

At 1.45pm on March 12,1993, four of them, Zakir Hussain Noor Mohammed Shaikh, Abdul Khan, Feroze Amani Malik and Moin Querishi hurled hand-grenades at the colony, killing three people and injuring six others. Salim Rahim Shaikh, who drove the car and Bashir Khairullah did not throw the grenades and have already been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The remaining nine convicts include Farooq Pawale, who planted the RDX-laden vehicles at the Air India building and Lucky petrol pump near Shiv Sena Bhavan in Dadar, four members of prime conspirator Tiger Memon’s family, actor Sanjay Dutt and three of his associates.