1993 Bombay bombings
| 1993 Bombay bombings | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India |
| Date | 12 March 1993 13:30–15:40 (UTC+05:30) |
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Attack type |
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| Weapons | 13 car bombs (RDX) containing shrapnel |
| Deaths | 257 |
| Injured | 1,400 |
| Perpetrators | Mafia groups affiliated with the D-Company |
The 1993 Bombay bombings was a series of 12 terrorist bombings in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries. The attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, leader of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate D-Company.
On 21 March 2013, the Supreme Court of India, after 20 years of judicial proceedings, upheld the death sentence against suspected ringleader Yakub Memon while commuting the death sentences of 10 others to life imprisonment. Two main suspects in the case, Ibrahim and Tiger Memon, have not been arrested or tried. After India's three-judge Supreme Court bench rejected his curative petition, saying the grounds he raised did not fall within the principles laid down by the court in 2002, Yakub was executed by the Maharashtra government on 30 July 2015.