Ahmedabad: A special Pota court here on Friday acquitted the remaining two accused in the Akshardham temple terror attack case, three weeks after the Supreme Court let off six accused, rejecting the prosecution’s charge of their involvement in the conspiracy.
Special Pota court judge Geeta Gopi ordered the acquittal of Majid Patel and Shaukatullah Ghori, who is from Hyderabad, holding that they were not involved in the conspiracy behind the suicide attack at the temple on September 24, 2002 which had claimed more than 30 lives.
The two were charged with conspiracy by the city crime branch and had been lodged in Sabarmati jail for six years. Drawing from the SC verdict, the court too did not accept the testimony of witness Ashfaq Bhavnagri.
Patel, who was accused of managing funds for the attack, was held in 2008 from Bharuch district of Gujarat while co-accused Ghori was arrested from Hyderabad the same year.
