The Bombay High Court is likely to give its ruling today on the confirmation of death sentence, awarded to three convicts in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case.

Ashrat Ansari, his aide Hanif Sayed Anees and wife Fehmida Sayed were held guilty on charges of planting powerful bombs in two taxis which exploded at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on August 25, 2003, killing 52 persons and injuring 184 others.

A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court had in August 2009 awarded capital punishment to the trio. The trio had been convicted under various sections of IPC, POTA, Explosives Substances Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

According to the prosecution, the conspiracy of the attack was hatched in Dubai by Hanif, Ashrat and another person named Nasir, who was later killed in a police encounter along with some Pakistani nationals owing allegiance to terror outfit LeT.

According to the police, LeT had used a family to carry out the blasts for the first time in this case. The investigators had also said that the motive was to seek vengeance for the violence against the minority community during the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat in 2002.