Mumbai : The convicts in the Mumbai serial train blasts case on Wednesday continued to examine witnesses before the trial court to establish that they were reformed and hence should get only the minimum punishment.
Four defence witnesses had been examined on Tuesday and as many took the stand on Wednesday. Another witness is likely to be examined on September 21, defence lawyers told the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court.
Meanwhile, Judge Y D Shinde pulled up a defence lawyer for asking irrelevant questions. “My patience is over. You have to ask questions about the mitigating circumstances, (other unwanted) questions are adding to the number of pages (of the record) and are not relevant,” said the judge.
A colleague of the convict Dr Tanvir Ahmed Ansari, a teacher of Ehtesham Siddiqui, and brothers of convicts Soheil Mehmood Shaikh and Mohammed Sajid Ansari deposed on Wednesday .
The court convicted 12 accused on September 11 for complicity in carrying out the blasts in Mumbai local trains on July 11, 2006, killing 188 persons. One accused was acquitted for lack of evidence.
On Monday, the defence lawyers are likely to argue on the quantum of sentence.
