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• Driving loaded Turk was convicted for filling vehicles with RDX and transporting arms and ammunition to the blast site

Dubai on February 19, 1993, for training in On March 12, 1993, The 1993 Mumbai blasts split the
the use of arms and bomb making. the city of Mumbai Mumbai underworld on religious lines.
Gullu confessed to his training in The D-Company of Dawood Ibrahim saw
Pakistan and spoke about a conspiracy was rocked by 13 Dawood’s right hand man Chotta Rajan
underway to bomb major locations explosions in different split from the organisation, taking most
around the city, including the Bom- of the Hindu members such as Sadhu
bay Stock Exchange, Sahar Airport and parts of the city. Shetty, Jaspal Singh and Mohan Kotiyan
the Shiv Sena Bhavan. However, police It resulted in 257 with him. The ongoing gang war has
rubbished his conspiracy claims. The already claimed more than hundred
arrest of Gul Mohammed spurred fatalities and injuries lives. Incidentally, seven of the accused
Tiger Memon to advance the date of the were killed by Chotta Rajan’s hitmen.
blasts. to over 700. According Five Customs officials and five policemen
The three hotels were targeted by suit- to some reports, the were also widely held responsible for
case bombs left in rooms booked by the allowing RDX into the city. Some of them
perpetrators. A double decker bus was death toll was over received bribes and some were just lax
very badly damaged in one of the explo- 300 and the number of about their duties.
sions, the biggest of them all. The single
incident claimed up to 90 lives. injured stood at 1,400 letters@tehelka.com

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