Patna. Patna High Court has converted the death sentence of 4 terrorists to life imprisonment in the serial blasts that took place during Narendra Modi’s Hunkar rally in Gandhi Maidan, Patna on 27 October 2013. The civil court had sentenced all of them to death. The High Court has upheld the life sentence of the remaining 2 convicts. The lower court had sentenced 4 to death and 2 to life imprisonment in the blast.
Imran Ghani, the lawyer of the convicts, said that while hearing the appeal, 4 convicts have been sentenced to life imprisonment (30 years), while the lower court’s decision has been reserved for 2 convicts. This decision has been given by the division bench of Justice Ashutosh Kumar. Numan Ansari, Mohammad Majibullah, Haider Ali, Imtiaz Alam were sentenced to death by the lower court, which has now been changed to life imprisonment by the High Court. At the same time, the lower court’s decision of life imprisonment for Umair Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureshi has been kept intact. Defense lawyer Imran Ghani said that they will go to the Supreme Court against this decision.