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11/7 verdict: Convicts' families speak out against judgment
Updated On: 01 October, 2015 06:53 AM IST | | Saurabh Vaktania
<p>Even as the Sessions court sentenced the five bomb planters to death and the other seven convicts to life imprisonment, speaking to Saurabh Vaktania, their family members said they would move higher courts to prove that the 12 had been falsely implicated</p>

Convict: Mohd Sajid Ansari
Role: Made the electric circuits that were used in the blasts
Sentence: Life imprisonment
Sajid’s brother Khalid, said, “The case was totally made up against my brother. We have suffered badly because of the case. Both of my mother’s kidneys have failed and my father is bedridden. Every single piece of evidence was made up by the ATS. Our whole family is devastated.” Asked whether his brother had gone to Pakistan for training, Khalid denied it.
Convict: Shaikh Alam Shaikh
Role: Provided his house where bombs were assembled; trained in Pakistan
Sentence: Life imprisonment
His brother Hazrat Ali Sheikh said, “Our house is very small. Two whole families stay here in Shivaji Nagar, where would they have made the bombs? ATS came to our house and took our pressure cooker. Our mother had kept chana dal inside in water.

