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Delhi court convicts six militants in Lajpat Nagar blast case

Six out of ten suspected members of banned terror outfit Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front were convicted by a Delhi court for their varying roles in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case. <br/><br/>District and Sessions Judge S P Garg said while pronouncing the verdict in a packed court room that the matter is fixed for the 13th of this for advancing of arguments on quantum of sentence. <br/><br/>Out of the ten accused, those convicted are Mohd Naushad, Mohd Ali Bhatt, Mirza Nissar Hussain, Javed Ahmed Khan, Farooq Ahmed Khan and a woman associate Farida Dar. <br/><br/>The remaining four- Mirza Iftikhar, Latif Ahmed Waza, Syed Maqbool Shah, and Abdul Gani- were acquitted of all the charges for want of sufficient evidence. A stolen Maruti car, laden with explosives went off around 6:30 pm on May 21, 1996 in the crowded central market at Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi, killing 13 persons and injuring 38 others. <br/><br/>The 10 accused persons, all hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, were arrested soon after the incident when police traced the phone calls they made to various media houses claiming responsibility for the terror attack.<br/>

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