12 March 1993; 31 years ago (12 March 1993) 13:30–15:40 (UTC+05:30)
Target
Hotels
Office buildings
Banks
Petrol pumps
Markets
Bombay Airport
Attack type
Car bombings
Scooter bombs
Grenades
Weapons
13 car bombs (RDX) containing shrapnel
Deaths
257[1]
Injured
1,400[2]
Perpetrators
Mafia groups affiliated with the D-Company
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Chennai (1993)
Dausa (1996)
Sangrampora (1997)
Coimbatore (1998)
Chapnari (1998)
Chamba (1998)
Prankote (1998)
2001-2010
Kishtwar (2001)
Kot Charwal (2001)
Indian Parliament (2001)
Srinagar (2001)
Raghunath Temple (2002)
Akshardam Temple (2002)
Kolkata (2002)
Jammu and Kashmir (May 2002)
Jammu and Kashmir (Jul 2002)
Mumbai (2002)
Kurnool (suspected)
Nadimarg (2003)
Mumbai (Aug 2003)
Ayodhya (2005)
Begumpet (2005)
Delhi (2005)
Bangalore (2005)
Varanasi (2006)
Doda (2006)
Kulgam (2006)
Mumbai (2006)
Srinagar (2006)
Hyderabad (Aug 2007)
Uttar Pradesh (2007)
Jaipur (2008)
Bangalore (2008)
Ahmedabad(2008)
Delhi (13 Sep 2008)
Delhi (27 Sep 2008)
Mumbai (2008)
Bangalore (2010)
Pune (2010)
Delhi (2010)
Varanasi (2010)
2011-2020
Mumbai (2011)
Delhi (2011)
Delhi (2012)
Pune (2012)
Hyderabad (2013)
Srinagar (Mar 2013)
Bangalore (2013)
Srinagar (Jun 2013)
Bodh Gaya (2013)
Patna (2013)
Chennai (2014)
Assam
Kashmir Valley (2014)
Bangalore (2014)
Gurdaspur (2015)
Pathankot (2016)
Pampore (2016)
Uri (2016)
Nagrota (2016)
Shajapur (2017)
Amarnath Yatra (2017)
Sunjuwan (2018)
Pulwama (2019)
The 1993 Bombay bombings was a series of 12[3][4][5] terrorist bombings that took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993.[6] The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries.[1][2][7][8][9] The attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim,[10] leader of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate D-Company.[11] Ibrahim was believed to have ordered and helped organize the bombings through his subordinates Tiger Memon and Yakub Memon.
For several years, confusion existed about the number of blasts, whether they were 12 or 13 in number. This was because Sharad Pawar, the then chief minister of Maharashtra, stated on television that day that there had been 13 blasts, and included a Muslim-dominated locality in the list. He later revealed that he had lied on purpose and that there had been only 12 blasts, none of them in Muslim-dominated areas; he also confessed that he had attempted to mislead the public into believing that the blasts could be the work of the LTTE, a Sri Lankan militant organization, when in fact intelligence reports had already confirmed to him that Mumbai's underworld (known as the "D-Company", a reference to Dawood Ibrahim) were the perpetrators of the serial blasts.[12][13]
The Supreme Court of India gave its judgement on 21 March 2013, after over 20 years of judicial proceedings, upholding the death sentence against suspected ringleader Yakub while commuting the previous death sentences against 10 others to life in prison.[14][15][16] However, two of the main suspects in the case, Ibrahim and Tiger, have not yet been arrested or tried.[17] After India's three-judge Supreme Court bench rejected his curative petition, saying the grounds raised by him do not fall within the principles laid down by the apex court in 2002,[18] the Maharashtra government executed Yakub on 30 July 2015.[19]
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^ ab"How the 1993 blasts changed Mumbai forever". BBC News. 30 July 2015.
^"To keep the peace, I misled people on '93 blasts: Pawar - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
^"Sharad Pawar's white lies: How he landed in trouble over Dawood". Hindustan Times. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
^"1993 Mumbai Blasts: When Sharad Pawar made up a thirteenth blast". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
^"Mumbai bombings: 400 detained". CNN. 13 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
^Hansen, Thomas (2001). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Mumbai. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-691-08840-2.
^"The 1993 Bombay Blasts: What Exactly Happened on March 12 That Year". News18. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
^Pawar, Sharad (2016). On my terms: from the grassroots to the corridors of power. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger. ISBN 9789385755392.
^"TADA court accepts Dawood's role in 1993 blasts". rediff.com. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
^James S. Robbins (12 July 2006). "The Bombay Blasts". National Review. Archived from the original on 1 May 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
^"1993 Mumbai Blasts: When Sharad Pawar made up a thirteenth blast". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
^"Mumbai bombings: 400 detained". CNN. 13 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
^"Ruling on the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts, Supreme Court sends a strong anti-terror message". The Times of India. 22 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^"Death sentence upheld in 1993 Indian bombing that killed 257". Los Angeles Times. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^"1993 Bombay bomb blasts: Finally, justice for 257 victims". The Times of India. 22 March 2013. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^"1993 blasts: 98 punished, big fish still free". Hindustan Times. 22 March 2013. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^"After SC denies relief, Yakub Memon submits mercy petition to Maharashtra governor". The Times of India. 21 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
^"Bombay bombings: Yakub Memon hanged". BBC News.
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