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The Central Bureau of Investigation has implicated all the 123 accused, including film star Sanjay Dutt, in the conspiracy leading to the serial explosions in Bombay on March 12, 1993, in which more than 200 people were killed and several maimed.
In written arguments running into 896 pages, the CBI has accused them of participating in the conspiracy to commit terrorist acts in India at the behest of Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and other absconding accused.
The arguments were submitted before designated Judge P D Kode on Thursday, who has directed the agency to explain how every accused was linked to the conspiracy.
The CBI alleged that arms and ammunition, transported from Pakistan, landed at Shekhadi and Dighi coasts in the Raigad district of Maharashtra.
RDX was used for the first time in India in these explosions and it was transported in gunny bags and cardboard boxes. The stamp on a cardboard box bore the letters 'WAH NOBEL Pvt Ltd', the CBI said.
WAH NOBEL Pvt Ltd manufactured various types of explosives and was located at WAH Cantonment near Islamabad, Pakistan, the CBI alleged.
According to the agency, landing at Dighi was organised by absconding accused Mohammed Dossa on January 9, 1993. In these landings, arms, ammunition and hand grenades were smuggled.
The next landing at Shekhadi on February 3 and 9, 1993, were organised by absconding accused Tiger Memon and the consignment consisted of RDX, rifles and ammunition, the court was told.
Based on confessions made by the co-accused and their passports, the CBI alleged that nearly 25 accused were sent to Pakistan via Dubai for arms training at the behest of Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim.
Security and other immigration formalities were avoided at the Islamabad airport and the accused were whisked away to a far off jungle, where they were taught how to make car bombs, plant explosives and handle AK-56 rifles.
On the involvement of Sanjay Dutt in the conspiracy, the CBI harped on his statement of confession in which he had admitted to having possessed an AK-56 rifle.
This piece of evidence attracted Section 5 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, which banned possession of terrorist weapons in a notified area, the CBI pleaded.
The agency had also dwelt upon the confessions of the co-accused to show that film producers Samir Hingora and Hanif Kadawala had gone to Sanjay Dutt's bungalow to deliver weapons in January 1993.
Instruction given by the actor to the security guards to move outside his bungalow to facilitate the delivery of arms was indicative of his intention to participate in the conspiracy, the CBI submitted.
Sanjay's statement of confession also showed alleged "guilt" in his mind because he had allegedly instructed his friend Yusuf Nullwalla on telephone from Mauritius to destroy the AK-56 rifle kept in his house, the agency pleaded.
Finally, the CBI focussed its submissions on the alleged planting of explosives in cars, jeeps and two wheelers in the garages of Tiger Memon's building Al-Husseini at Mahim in central Bombay.
PTI
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