VARANASI: Ten years before Monday’s decision of the Ghaziabad sessions court of awarding death penalty to Waliullah Khan in March 7, 2006, serial blasts in Varanasi, the then Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state had sought legal opinion for the withdrawal of cases from some terrorists, including Waliullah.
On Nov 23, 2012, the Allahabad high court ticked off the SP government for seeking to withdraw cases against two suspects in the March 2006 Varanasi serial blasts, which claimed 28 lives, and asked if this would not encourage terrorism.
