2002 Mumbai bus bombing

At 18:45 IST on Monday, 2 December 2002, a bomb placed under a seat of a B.E.S.T. bus exploded near the busy Ghatkopar station. The bomb was placed in the rear of a bus near the station and killed two people and injured over 50. Ghatkopar being the final stop, all the passengers in the bus had just alighted and passengers for the return trip had not yet entered the bus. The people who were killed were those present in the busy station area.[1][2][3]

1st Ghatkopar Bus Bombing
LocationMumbai, India
Date2 December 2002
18:45 IST (UTC+05:30)
Attack type
Bombing
Deaths2
Injured50

Later, the police defused an unexploded bomb from another BEST bus in SEEPZ industrial area at Andheri.[1]

The convicts in the 25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings, the twin bomb blasts in Zaveri Bazaar and Gateway of India also confessed to planting the unexploded bomb in the bus in SEEPZ area in suburban Mumbai.[4]

The police arrested several young men for the blast. All were acquitted in the subsequent trial.[3] One of the arrested Khwaja Yunus, allegedly escaped from the police custody. Now it is held that Khwaja Yunus died in police custody of torture.[5][6] The accused policemen are being tried in a fast track court. [7]

This was the first in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of less than nine months. Other bombings included:

  • 27 January 2003 Mumbai bombing
  • 2003 Mumbai train bombing
  • 2003 Mumbai bus bombing
  • 25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings

References
  1. 3 killed in Mumbai blast The Hindu,3 December 2002. Retrieved on 31 July 2013
  2. Blast outside Ghatkopar station in Mumbai, 2 killed Rediff 2 December 2002, Retrieved on 31 July 2013
  3. Ghatkopar blast: All accused acquitted Rediff, 11 June 2005, Retrieved on 1 August 2013
  4. High Court upholds death sentence for three killers behind the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts Mail Online India, 10 February 2012, Retrieved on 1 August 2013
  5. Khwaja Yunus: HC relief for 10 cops, but state told to pay Rs20 lakh DNA 11 April 2012, Retrieved on 1 Aug 2013
  6. Ghatkopar blast case: Khwaja Yunus died of cold water, reveals encounter specialist India Today, 1 March 2012, Retrieved on 1 August 2013
  7. Samervel, Rebecca (9 January 2013). "Court to hear Khwaja Yunus case on January 18". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 November 2018.

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