Defence to reply to prosecution on sentence
Mumbai, Feb 18 (UNI) Defence lawyers will present their arguments in the designated TADA court on February 23 in the 1993 serial blasts case in response to the prosecution's demand for awarding ''maximum sentence'' to 100 convicts, except three women convicts and two others who suffer from life threatening diseases.
Defence lawyers Farhana Shah and Subhash Kanse will argue the matter before Judge P D Kode, who is conducting the serial blasts trial.
According to defence lawyers, they took 25 working days to argue on the quantum of sentence. On the contrary, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) completed the arguement in a day's time.
''It is an eyewash,'' they said and pointed out that some people have been charged with recovery and some with landing of arms and explovises. They cannot be given capital punishment.
Comparing the serial blasts case with the 2001 Parliament attack case was incorrect as the background of the serial blasts was totally different, they added.
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