2 convicted for making bombs

Vadodara, Sep 23 (UNI) A city court has sentenced two youths to two-year imprisonment and fined Rs 500 each in connection with a bomb blast in a residential house at Wadi area in this city in March 2004.

Joint district judge N H Tandel, pronouncing his verdict yesterday, found Sajid Jamaluddin Iqbal and Jarith Iqbal Tailor guilty of making bombs in the house which suffered extensive damage in an accidental blast. Both were also injured and admitted to the SSG civil hospital.

Police said the convicts had initially tried to mislead the investigative agency by claiming that the blast was caused following leakage in an LPG cyclinder.

Later, an offence was registered against the duo under the Explosive Act after an FSL report confirmed presence of explosive materials in the house which the convicts had used to make bombs.

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