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A court in Mumbai today found two Muslim men and a woman guilty of twin bombings that killed 52 people and wounded 100 six years ago.
Two taxis carrying explosives blew up within minutes of each other on 25 August 2003, at the Gateway of India, a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront, and at a busy shopping complex.
Ashrat Shafiq Ansari, Syed Haneef Abdul Rahim and his wife Fahmeeda Syed Haneef were arrested shortly after the attacks.
The charges against the three, which they denied, included murder, conspiracy to kill and damaging public property. They will be sentenced next month.
Judge M. Puranic said the three were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned, Pakistan-based militant group formed in the Eighties, with the alleged blessing of Pakistani intelligence.
Indian intelligence agencies also blame Lashkar-e-Taiba for the Mumbai attacks last November when 10 gunmen killed 166 people in a three-day rampage.
