Mirza Himayat Baig, the lone convicted accused in the German Bakery blast case

Mirza Himayat Baig, the lone convicted accused in the German Bakery blast case, was sentenced to death by a Pune Sessions Court, India. Additional Sessions Judge N. P. Dhote handed down capital punishment to Baig for murder and criminal conspiracy. The court had pronounced Baig, the only person arrested in the blasts that left 17 dead and 64 wounded at the popular eatery on February 13, 2010, guilty of involvement in the crime. The court had accepted the prosecution's contention that it was a "carefully planned and executed attack calculated to terrorise the public in general by causing extensive damage to life and property and that the primary objective was to undermine and reduce faith of the common citizen in the elected government and destabilise the system of law."