Hearing in bomb recovery case posted to September 13
The Special Court for Bomb Blast cases on Thursday posted to September 13 the hearing in the case relating to the recovery of an explosive material from the car parking premises of an apartment off Tiruchi Road near Valankulam.A box bomb was recovered from the apartment premises on December 1, 1997. The seizure was in the wake of the communal violence on November 30, 1997 (following the stabbing of a traffic constable R. Selvaraj on November 29, 1997 at Ukkadam) in which 18 youths were lynched.The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Crime Branch CID named 12 accused of whom ten are facing trial while two have been declared as wanted accused.In the first hearing on August 3, two undertrials expressed lack of faith and objected to the case being tried by the present presiding officer. On Thursday, two of the accused sought appointment of State brief defence counsel through the State Legal Services Authority, while the others sought time for deciding on the counsel. Hence, the judge posted the case to September 13.
