SC stays death penalty of '93 blast convict

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the death sentence of Zakir Hussain Noor Mohammed Shaikh, a death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blast case.

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A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan suspended Shaikh's death penalty while admitting his plea challenging the verdict of Mumbai's anti terror court, which convicted him on charges of terrorism.

Sheikh had detonated a bomb in the Mahim fishermen's colony in Mumbai, killing three people and injuring six others.

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