By IANS
Mumbai : One man got life for his role in the Mumbai serial blasts by a special court, which Friday also sentenced Bollywood producer Samir Hingora, a close friend of actor Sanjay Dutt, to nine years rigorous imprisonment.
The anti-terror TADA court sentenced Hingora, who has made little known films like "Sanam", on two counts to nine years and fined him Rs.100,000. He has been held guilty of supplying three AK-56 rifles, hand-grenades and magazines to Dutt.
The weapons were supplied by India's most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Anis Ibrahim through Abu Salem.
Dutt has been convicted under the Arms Act but absolved of conspiracy charges.
Of the four others sentenced Friday, Niyaz Mohammad alias Aslam Iqbal Ahmad Sheikh was awarded life imprisonment on two counts — for conspiracy under TADA to carry out the act and for aiding and abetting terrorism.
He was also fined Rs.50,000.
Niyaz Mohammad was found guilty of going to Pakistan for taking arms training and attending conspiracy meetings and also surveying the Brihanmumbai Mumbai Corp (BMC) building prior to the March 12, 1993 blasts that claimed 257 lives, injured 700 people and damaged property worth Rs.300 million.