Information About Incident 54060-105693-266734 in Haveri India

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Ashrat Ansari, Sayed Anees and his wife Fehmida Sayed were held guilty by a special anti-terrorism court in 2009, under the now-repealed Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for their conspiracy to trigger four blasts - an unexploded bomb in a BEST bus in December 2002 a blast in a Ghatkopar BEST bus in July 2003 that killed two and the twin blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on August 25, 2003.

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• Meta Location: Gateway of India Zaveri Bazaar, Gateway of India Zaveri Bazaar
• Matched District: Haveri
• Actgroup: attack, kill
• Actor: Ashrat Ansari , Sayed Anees and his wife Fehmida Sayed, an unexploded bomb a Ghatkopar BEST bus that
• Subject: four blasts - an unexploded bomb in a BEST bus in a blast in a Ghatkopar BEST bus in that killed two and the twin blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, two and the twin blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar

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Eight years after two blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai killed 52 people, the Bombay High Court (HC) on February 10 upheld the death sentence awarded to the three accused, reports The Times of India. The court also asked two accused discharged earlier to appear before the trial court, where they will face a fresh case. Ashrat Ansari, Sayed Anees and his wife Fehmida Sayed were held guilty by a special anti-terrorism court in 2009, under the now-repealed Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for their conspiracy to trigger four blasts - an unexploded bomb in a BEST bus in December 2002 a blast in a Ghatkopar BEST bus in July 2003 that killed two and the twin blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on August 25, 2003.

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