'95 Jammu blasts: SC holds Hizbul operative guilty
4 July 2015 5:23 AM IST
The Supreme Court has set aside the acquittal of a Pakistan national, a Hizbul Mujahideen operative who was involved in serial blasts at the Maulana Azad Memorial Stadium in Jammu during the Republic Day function in 1995 that had claimed eight lives.
A Bench of Justices AK Sikri and UU Lalit, while relying on the confessional statement of Ghulam Nabi before the CBI, said: "The confession of an accused is a substantive piece of evidence and his conviction can be founded on such confession itself."
The court asked Nabi, who has been convicted under the now repealed Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), to appear before it for advancing arguments on quantum of sentence in the case.
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