Seven Series Bomb Blasts

Location :- Mumbai, India
Target :- Mumbai Suburban Railway
Date :- 11 July 2006
Time :- 18:24 – 18:35 (UTC+5.5)
Attack type :- Bombings
Deaths :- 209
Injured :- 714
Perpetrator(s):- Terrorist outfits—Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT; These are alleged perpetrators as legal proceedings have not yet taken place.)

Details



The bombs were placed on trains plying on the western line of the suburban ("local") train network, which forms the backbone of the city's transport network. The first blast reportedly took place at 18:24 IST (12:54 UTC), and the explosions continued for approximately eleven minutes, until 18:35,[2] during the after-work rush hour. All the bombs had been placed in the first-class "general" compartments (some compartments are reserved for women, called "ladies" compartments) of several trains running from Churchgate, the city-centre end of the western railway line, to the western suburbs of the city. They exploded at or in the near vicinity of the suburban railway stations of Matunga Road, Mahim, Bandra, Khar Road, Jogeshwari, Bhayandar and Borivali.




Map showing the 'Western line' and blast locations.Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters that authorities had "some" information an attack was coming, "but place and time was not known".

The bomb attacks in Mumbai came hours after a series of grenade attacks in Srinagar, the largest city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. However, Home Secretary V K Duggal said there was no link between the Srinagar and Mumbai bomb blasts.




11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings
Travelling north
from Churchgate Khar Road - Santacruz 18:24

17:50 Fast Local
Churchgate-Borivali Bandra - Khar Road 18:24

17:37 Slow Local
Churchgate-Borivali Jogeshwari (PF #1)18:25

17:54 Fast Local
Churchgate-Borivali Mahim Junction (PF #3)18:26

Travelling north
from Churchgate Mira Road - Bhayandar First Class 18:29

17:57 Fast Local
Churchgate-Virar Matunga Road - Mahim Junction First Class 18:30

17:37 Fast Local
Churchgate-Virar Borivali (PF #4)1 First Class 18:35

One bomb exploded at this location, but another one was found by police and defused.


Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R. R. Patil confirmed that a total of 200 people were killed and another 714 others have been injured.[8] Additionally, various news organisations have reported that at least 200 people have died and that more than 700 others have been injured.

A week after the blasts in Mumbai the confirmed death toll rose to 207.
In September of 2006 it was confirmed that the death toll had risen to 209.


From Khar Station



A cocktail of explosives including RDX,ammonium nitrate, nitrite, fuel oil was used.
The first breakthrough came after a call was tracked from Mumbai to Madhubani in Bihar & suspect named Kamal Ansari was picked up.

According to investigators, the conspiracy had been hatched 5 months earlier. Rs 20 lakh was spent on the logistics of the operation, which involved gathering bombers from Pakistan & Bangladesh.

Vile Parle Station Bomb Blast

Location :- Mumbai, India.
Date :- January 27, 2003.
Time :- Around 6:00 pm.
Attack type :- Bombing.
Deaths :- 1(Female).
Injured :- 28.

On 27 January 2003 a bomb placed on a bicycle exploded near the busy marketplace outside Vile Parle station. The bomb killed 1 and injured 28.
The bomb is packed inside a bag containing wheat.

The blast occured when Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister of India at the time was to visit the city.

This is the second in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings include.

Police Commissioner R S Sharma said an explosive appeared to have been placed on a bicycle, which was found completely destroyed, parked in the busy market place just outside on the eastern side of the station.
Most of the victims suffered minor injuries, he said. The injured have been taken to the Cooper and Nanavati hospitals nearby.

Twin Car Bomb Blasts

Location :- Mumbai, India.
Date :- August 25, 2003.
Attack type :- Car Bombing
Deaths :- 52



On 25 August 2003, twin car bombings struck the Indian city of Mumbai killing at least 52 people, and injuring nearly 150. Both of those two bombs were planted in taxis during lunch period. One of the bomb exploded at the Gateway of India, which is a major tourist attraction. It was planted near the Taj Mahal hotel, shattering it's windows in due course. The other bomb went off in a jewelery market near the Mumba Devi temple in central Mumbai. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is believed that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba was behind the carnage.

The first bomb exploded about 1:00pm in the Jhaveri Bazaar, a bullion market near the Mumbadevi Temple, followed minutes later by the blast at the Gateway of India.

Most of the deaths were in the bullion market.
In both places, blood and broken glass lay on the ground, shop windows were smashed and cars were twisted and shattered.
This is the last in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months.

The five arrested included mastermind, an autorickshaw driver named Mohammed Haneef
& his wife Fahmida. They were found to have links with the Muslim Defence Force which
allegedly wanted to avenge the Gujarat Riots.

BEST Bus No. 340

Location :-Mumbai, India
Date :-July 28, 2003
Attack type :- Bombing
Deaths :-4



At 21:15 hrs on 28 July 2003 a bomb placed under a seat of a B.E.S.T. bus exploded on the busy Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg in Ghatkopar.This bus runs from Sarvodaya Nagar to Ghatkopar,a 3km run, had just halted outside Ghatkopar Railway Station when a bomb placed under the last seat exploded.The bomb was placed in the rear of the bus and killed 4 people and injured 32. A man who was riding a motorcycle behind the bus and a woman who was in a rikshaw travelling near the bus were among those killed. An eyewitness claims that the woman was thrown at least 10 feet away from the rikshaw and died on the spot.

This is the fourth in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings include

Mulund Blast Arrests

Mumbai, April 12: Police today arrested three “former” members of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi) for trying to thwart the arrest of Saquib Nachan, the prime suspect in the Mulund train blast of March 13.

Five persons, all said to be Simi activists, were earlier arrested for engineering the Ghatkopar bus blast on December 2 last year. The blast had killed two and injured 30 persons.

Working in tandem with sleuths from the Mumbai Crime Branch, the Thane district police picked up Takki Iqbal Khot, Moti Iqbal Khot and Hazeeb Zuber Mullah in a surprise raid early this morning. They have been charged with rioting and hampering police work.

Though Thane district superintendent R. Pawar said the trio was trying to shield Nachan, wanted in connection with the blast which claimed 11 lives and injured 70, he refused to say if they were involved in the train bombing, too.

A metropolitan magistrate has remanded Khot and his accomplices in police custody for three days. Police contend that Khot and the others indulged in rioting and led a mob that forced them to retreat when they tried to arrest Nachan from his native village of Padgha on March 26.

The accused have also been charged with distributing “subversive literature”. A senior police officer in Mumbai said though they have been booked for rioting, their role in the Mulund train blasts, too, would be investigated. “There may be a connection somewhere. We are not giving up that premise,” he said.

Nachan, who dramatically surrendered before Bombay High Court on Thursday as he feared the police would kill him in a fake encounter, is now in police custody. The first accused to be apprehended in the Mulund blast case, Nachan had earlier spent 10 years in an Ahmedabad jail under Tada. He has denied his involvement with the Simi or the blast.

Mulund Bomb Blasts

Mulund Train Bombing
Location :- Mumbai, India
Date :- March 13, 2003
Attack type :- Bombing
Deaths :-10


At 21:45 hrs on 13 March 2003 a bomb exploded as a train pulled into Mulund Station(which coming from Karjat). The bomb was placed in the first class ladies compartment and killed 10 people and injured 70. Among the ten killed were four women who were in the first class compartment and six men who were in the adjoining second class compartment. Two of the four women were lady police constables.

This is the third in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months.

BEST Bus No. 416

1st Ghatkopar Bus Bombing
Location:- Mumbai, India
Date:- December 6, 2002
Attack type:- Bombing
Deaths:- 3
Injured :- 32

At 18:45 hrs on 6 December 2002 a bomb placed under a seat of an empty B.E.S.T. bus no. 416 exploded near the busy Ghatkopar station. The bomb was placed in the rear of an empty bus parked near the station and killed 2 people and injured 28. There were no passengers in the bus at that time and the people who were killed were those present in the busy station area.The bombing occoured on the 10th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

This is the first in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings include.

The police had rounded up a group of 8 Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)activists, including Dr.Abdul Mateen, Khwaja Yunus, Zaheer Shaikh, Altaf Shaikh, Muzammil Shaikh. Notably, all the accused were well educated. Mateen was a doctor of forensics at J.J.hospital, Muzammil Shaikh an electronic engineer.

They were all booked under the Prevention of Terrorism Act(POTA).
This was the same case in which Khawaja Yunus, a software engineer, was picked up & later allegedly killed in custody. All eight who tried were acquitted by a special MCOCA court due to lack of evidence. The state has now filled an appeal against the judgement in Bombay high court.

Black Friday

Directed by :- Anurag Kashyap
Produced by :- Arjun Bagga,
Arindam Mitra
Written by :- Hussain Zaidi,
Anurag Kashyap
Starring :- Kay Kay Menon,
Pavan Malhotra,
Aditya Srivastava,
Kishore Kadam,
Gajraj Rao,
Zakir Hussain,
Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Music by:- Indian Ocean (band)
Cinematography :- Nataraja Subramanian
Editing by :- Aarti Bajaj
Release date(s):- 2004 (premiere)
February 9, 2007
August 13, 2004
(Locarno International Film Festival)
Running time :- 143 min
Language :- Hindi

Black Friday is film based on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai which many believe were organised as retaliation for the Bombay riots which left over 1,500 people dead. It was featured at the Locarno Film Festival and received widespread praise.
Black Friday was not released in Indian theaters for 2 years, as on the eve of its release a petition was filed by the persons named in the film, the alleged perpetrators of the crime, seeking a stay. Their argument, which was upheld by the court,was that the film would bias public opinion against them and hence affect the outcome of the verdict which was still pending in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The accused had been charged with TADA, Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act, which carries a maximum sentence of death.
The film was received rapturously at previews in India and abroad. It got a United Kingdom release in 2006 and was released in India on February 9th, 2007. This was nearly 2 years after the film was shot, when the Supreme Court of India gave it the go ahead.

Black Friday Teaser
http://www.MotionFlicks.com/desi/view_video.php?viewkey=77442771720a370c3c72
http://www.MotionFlicks.com/desi/view_video.php?viewkey=70acaceed13bc82dfedf

The Bombings

At 1:30 p.m. a powerful car bomb exploded in the basement of the Bombay Stock Exchange building. The 28-story office building housing the exchange was severely damaged, and many nearby office buildings also suffered some damage. About 50 were killed by this explosion. About 30 minutes later, another car bomb exploded elsewhere in the city, and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. a total of 13 bombs exploded throughout Bombay. Most of the bombs were car bombs, but some were in scooters.

Three hotels, the Hotel Sea Rock, Hotel Juhu Centaur, and Hotel Airport Centaur, were targeted by suitcase bombs left in rooms booked by the perpetrators. Banks, the regional passport office, hotels, an airline office (the Air India Building), and a major shopping complex were also hit. Bombs exploded at Zaveri Bazar, Century Bazar, Katha Bazar, Shiv Sena Bhawan, and Plaza Theatre. A jeep-bomb at the Century Bazar exploded early, thwarting another attack. Grenades were also thrown at Sahar International Airport and at Fishermen's Colony, apparently targeting Hindus at the latter. A double decker bus was very badly damaged in one of the explosions and that single incident accounted for the greatest loss of life - perhaps up to ninety people were killed.

The Supermind behind '93 blasts are Dawood Ibrahim & Tiger Menon



Buildings Attacked Include :-

1.Bombay Stock Exchange Building
2.Hotel Sea Rock
3.Hotel Centaur, Juhu
4.Hotel Centaur, Santa Cruz
5.Plaza Cinema
6.Shiv Sena Bhawan
7.Zaveri Bazaar
8.Century Bazaar
9.Passport Office
10.Air India Building
11.Sahar Airport
12.V Shantaram Theatre

मुम्बई Riots

The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of thirteen bomb explosions that took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), India on March 12, 1993.The coordinated attacks were the most destructive bomb explosions in Indian history. The single-day attacks resulted in over 250 civilian fatalities and 700 injuries.The attacks are believed to have been coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, don of the organized crime syndicate named D-Company, which had operated as a terrorist organization.It is believed that the attacks were carried out in retaliation for the destruction of the historic Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992, which resulted in nationwide riots that led to the deaths of hundreds of Muslims and Hindus.

Background

In December 1992 and January 1993, there was widespread rioting in Bombay following the December 6 destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya by extreme Hindu groups. Although there was no loss of life in the incident at the Babri Mosque, a series of riots soon erupted throughout the nation, most notably in Bombay. After five years following the December-January riots, the Srikrishna Commission Report stated that nine hundred individuals lost their lives and over two thousand were injured, most of them Muslim, in the riots.

Justice B.N. Srikrishna Commission

Justice Srikrishna, then a relatively junior Judge of the Bombay High Court, accepted the task of investigating the causes of the riots, something that many of his colleagues had turned down. For five years till 1998, he examined victims, witnesses and alleged perpetrators. Detractors came initially from left-secular quarters who were wary of a judge who was a devout and practicing Hindu. The Commission was disbanded by the Shiv Sena led government in January 1996 and on public opposition was later reconstituted on 28 May 1996; though when it was reconstituted, its terms of reference were extended to include the Mumbai bomb blasts that followed in March 1993.

The report of the commission stated that the tolerant and secular foundations of the city were holding even if a little shakily. Justice Srikrishna indicted those he alleged as largely responsible for the second phase of the bloodshed and to some extent, the first—the Shiv Sena.

The report was criticized as “politically motivated”. For a while, its contents were a closely guarded secret and no copies were available. The Shiv Sena-government rejected its recommendations. Since under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, an Inquiry is not a court of law (even if it conducts proceedings like a court of law) and the report of an inquiry is not binding on Governments, Srikrishna's recommendations cannot be directly enforced. Till date, the recommendations of the Commission have neither been accepted nor acted upon by the Maharashtra Government. Many indicted policemen were promoted by the government and indicted politicians continue to hold high political office even today.


Bombay - a Bollywood movie based on the 1992-93 Bombay riots


Riots pictures on timesrelieffund.com website.
http://www.timesrelieffund.com/riots/riotspic.htm

Full Report of the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission
http://www.sabrang.com/srikrish/sri%20main.htm

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1993 Mumbai Bombings
Location :- Bombay, India
Target(s) :- Hotels, office buildings, banks, etc.
Date :- March 12, 1993
Time :- 13:30-15:40 (UTC+ 5.5)
Attack type :- Car Bombs
Deaths :- 257[1]
Injured :- 713[2]
Perpetrator(s):- Militant Islamic groups, ISI (Pakistan)