In a major judgement, a Mumbai sessions court on Friday awarded life sentence to 11 convicts, including a Pakistani national, for triggering a chain of bomb blasts in local trains and railway stations in 1998 killing four people
Besides life sentence, the accused were handed over various other sentences by the Additional Sessions Judge V L Achalya, who said all sentences should run consecutively and not concurrently.
The judge also directed the state government not to exercise its powers to condone or reduce the punishment.
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