Jaipur: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Jaipur today sentenced Bhavesh Patel and Devendra Gupta life imprisonment in the Ajmer Dargah blast case.
A local court here has awarded life imprisonment to two men convicted for the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blast in which three persons were killed.
A fine of Rs 10,000 on Patel and 5,000 on Gupta has been imposed by the magistrate.
Earlier on March 8th, the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court had convicted Bhavesh Patel, Devendra Gupta and Sunil Joshi (now dead).
Arguments over the quantum of punishment were completed on March 18 and the court on Wednesday gave life imprisonment to both the surviving convicts-Gupta and Patel.
Ajmer Dargah blast case convicts gets life sentence
On October 11, 2007 a blast took place in the dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti at the time of Roza Iftaar which had left three pilgrims dead and 15 others injured.
The court on March 8th had convicted Patel, Gupta and Joshi in the case while acquitting others including Swami Aseemanand. Joshi died soon after the blast.
The case was handed over to the ATS Rajasthan and was later transferred to NIA which re-registered the case with the NIA police station in New Delhi on April 6, 2011.
There were as many as 149 witnesses in the case and 451 documents were examined and the NIA filed three supplementary charge sheets in the case.
