life sentence to Dawood gang members

The Supreme Court has awarded life sentence to four members of a Dawood Ibrahim-Chotta Shakeel gang with Pakistani ISI links responsible for killing three Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai in March 1999 but rejected Mahrashtra's appeal for death sentence to three of them. The apex court reversed the Bombay High Court's acquittal of Mohd Juber Kasam Shaikh alias Tabrez and Fazal Mohd Shaikh and restored the life sentence imposed by the sessions court. It also confirmed the life sentence on Zahiruddin Shaikh and Hassan Mistri. The 10-year RI imposed by the sessions court and affirmed by the high court on two others Mohd Farooq Abdul Gafur and Mansur Hasan Haji Iqbal Pankar has been upheld by the apex court. The accused numbering eight gunned down three persons and inflicted bullet injuries on eight other Shiv Sainks including former city Mayor Milind Vaidya, who was their main target, on March 5, 1999. The entire planning was carried out from Karachi, according to Mahararashtra government which had invoked the stringent MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) against them. The sessions court had earlier imposed death sentence on three of the accused--Zahiruddin Shaikh, Mohd Juber Kasam Shaikh and Fazal Mohd Shaikh. On an appeal, the Bombay High Court altered the death sentence to life imprisonment for Zahiruddin Shaikh but acquitted the other two.

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