New Delhi: Mumbai's TADA court will pronounce the quantum of sentence for those found guilty in the 1993 serial bomb blasts on the April 19.
The TADA court convicted 100 people in Mumbai blasts case after the trial ended in September last year.
The TADA court of Judge P D Kode also heard the last of the applications filed by the convicts seeking review of their conviction order, and Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam's reply.
The court will decide on these applications — chief among them one filed by 69 convicts who asked that the stringent TADA charges against them should be dropped and they should be tried under the Arms Act — on April 16.
The court will also decide the fate of actor Sanjay Dutt — convicted under the Arms Act and seeking release under the Probation of Offenders Act — in the course of pronouncing the sentences.
Nearly 300 people lost their lives and 700 wounded in bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai 14 years ago.
(With PTI inputs)
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