Timeline | 2007 Hyderabad twin blasts case

Members of bomb disposal squad and forensic team collect samples from the blast site at Gokul Chat (left) and Lumbini Park in Hyderabad. File/PTI

Hyderabad: Following is the chronology of events relating to the August 25, 2007, Hyderabad twin blasts case.

August 25, 2007: Blast at Gokul Chat eatery in Koti area; 32 people killed, 47 injured.

Blast at an open air theatre in Lumbini Park close to the state secretariat; 12 people killed and 21 wounded.

January 2009: Alleged terror operatives Anique Shafique Sayeed and Mohammed Akbar Ismail Chowdhari arrested by the then undivided Andhra Pradesh police.

March 2009: Two other accused - Farooq Sharfuddin Tarkash, Mohammed Sadiq Israr Ahmed Shaik - arrested.

May 2009: Charge-sheet filed in Lumbini Park blast case.

May 2009: Charge-sheet filed in connection with recovery of an unexploded bomb at Dilsuknagar.

June 2009: Charge-sheet filed in Gokul Chat blast case.

June 2018: Trial against the accused shifted to a court hall located on the premises of Cherlapalli Central Prison from a court located in Nampally Court complex.

August 2018: Final arguments and counter arguments completed.

September 4, 2018: Verdict delivered by local court.

Two terror operatives - Aneeq Shafique Sayeed and Mohammed Akbar Ismail Chowdhari - convicted, while two other accused - Farooq Sharfuddin Tarkash and Mohammed Sadiq Israr Ahmed Shaik - acquitted.

September 10, 2018: Another accused Tarik Anjum, found guilty of harbouring the absconding offenders - Riyaz Bhatkal, his brother Iqbal, in New Delhi and other places, sentenced to life imprisonment.

September 10, 2018: Court awards death penalty to Aneeq Shafique Sayeed and Mohammed Akbar Ismail Chowdhari.

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