INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF SIXTH MUMBAI BLAST CONVICT SUSPENDED

the Indian Supreme Court temporarily suspended the capital punishment awarded to a convict for killing 88 people during the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai. A bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan stayed the death sentence of Abdul Ghani Turk following his petition challenging his conviction and sentence. The bench, which included Justice RV Raveendran and Justice MK Sharma, issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Turk was sentenced to death for parking an RDX-filled jeep near Century Bazaar in Mumbai and triggering a blast had killed 88 people and injured 159. The series of terror attacks March 12, 1993 had claimed a total of 257 lives. Turk is the sixth accused in this case to have his death sentence stayed.