SUDDENLY, HORROR: Photos taken seconds after the Gateway blast show (top) bloodied tourists sitting dazed after the attack. (Left) A man stares at a mangled vehicle. (Right) A wounded father carries his five-year-old son. A Photoraph by K K Chaudhry

CASE CALENDAR

Aug 25, 2003: Blasts occur at Gateway and Zaveri Bazar, killing 52 people

Aug 31-Sep 1: Ashrat Ansari and the Syeds are arrested

Sep 12: Naseer is killed in encounter

Nov 11: Police arrest Batterywala and Ladoowala

Oct 2: Accused who later turned approver is held

Feb 5, 2004: Charge sheet filed against six accused in Pota court. Accused also allegedly involved in planting an unexploded bomb in a bus at Seepz on Dec 2, 2002 and a bomb that went off in a bus at Ghatkopar on July 28, 2003, in which two people died

May 5: Approver gets pardon from court

Jun 20: Charges framed against accused

Sep 2, 2004: Trial commences

June 28, 2005: Batterywala and Ladoowala ask court to drop Pota charges after a Pota review panel says there’s no evidence against them

Oct 30, 2006: Dileep Wankhede, conductor on Ghatkopar bus, turns hostile in court

Dec 4: Conductor Dileep Masram of bus at SEEPZ turns hostile

Nov 17, 2008: Pota court acquits Ladoowala and Batterywala

Jul 27, 2009: Ansari, Hanif Syed and Fehmida are convicted

Aug 4: Arguments on sentencing to be heard

The Times of India, July 28, 2009