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Ahmedabad: Plotters of the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blasts had planned to assassinate the then chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi, the prosecution said on Friday. During the hearing in a special court, Public Prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt said that one of the accused, who has now been convicted, had admitted in the court that the convicts, associated with the Indian Mujahideen, had planned to eliminate then CM Narendra Modi.
A Special Court, on Friday pronounced the verdict in the 2008 Ahmedabad blast case and awarded death sentence to 38 convicts and life imprisonment to 11 others. According to reports, during the framing of charges, one of the convicts confessed that then Gujarat CM, as well as then Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, were the targets.
“A charge-sheet filed in 2010 in the case contained a statement of an accused which he had given to the magistrate under section 164 of the CrPC. In his statement, the accused (who is among those convicted), had admitted that they had also hatched a plan to kill PM Modi, who was Gujarat’s chief minister back then,” Sudhir Brahmbhatt said, news agency PTI quoted.
Convicts assembled bombs at rented spaces in Pune, Surat
While Brahmbhatt did not disclose the name of the convict, a senior lawyer who examined the 7000-page charge sheet said that the convicts in the Ahmedabad blasts case tried to “kill the then CM Narendra Modi, the then Home Minister of Gujarat Amit Shah and local MLA Pradipsinh Jadeja. But fortunately, they survived.”
According to the prosecution, the convicts held training in the forests of Kerala, Gujarat, and assembled bombs in rented premises in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Surat, and Pune.