Two Customs officers convicted in Mumbai Blast case
The TADA court yesterday convicted two Customs officers S STalwadekar, Superintendent and JayawantGurav, Inspector. The Special Judge said that the officers ‘‘did not act despite receiving specific information about the smuggling operation and thereby facilitated the commission of a terrorist act by intentionally aiding and abetting the terrorists after accepting money from them’’
The Inspector was found guilty of piloting two trucks loaded with arms, ammunition and explosives for a safe passage in the Customs official jeep from GhondharPhata to Kanghar in Raigad district as part of the Dighi landing operations.He was also found guilty of allowing accused UttamPoddar - Tiger Memon's aide - to drive the customs jeep while he sat beside Poddar.
Gurav pleaded that he be tried under the Customs Act, but the judge explained that the sentence would be much higher under the Customs Act since he was a Customs officer.
NOTIFICATION No., Dated: October 1, 2006
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