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June 16 (UPI) -- A Mumbai, India, court convicted six men Friday of involvement in a series of bombings in the city in 1993 that killed 257 people. A seventh suspect was acquitted in the special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Prevention Act court.
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The charges stemmed from 12 coordinated explosions that rocked Mumbai on the afternoon of March 12, 1993. The city's stock exchange, the offices of airline Air India and a luxury hotel were among the targets. The attacks killed 257 people and injured 713.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation said the attacks were allegedly a reprisal for the killing of Muslims in rioting following the 1992 destruction the Babri Masjid mosque in northern India after Hindus were denied access to the Hindu shrine beneath it.
The result in court Friday was the second part of judicial action taken after the bombings. The seven men, six of whom were convicted of criminal conspiracy and murder, were arrested between 2003 and 2010 as an earlier trial of 123 people concluded. It resulted in the convictions, on various charges, of 100 people. There remain 33 people wanted by police in connection with the bombings.
