Mumbai: Five years after a chain of bomb blasts killed four persons and injured 30 besides damaging railway property at various stations in Mumbai on Western and Central routes, a sessions court would tomorrow (June 29, 2004) decide the fate of nine accused who had allegedly participated in a sinister design hatched by ISI to destabilise the country.

The judgment would be delivered by sessions judge A L Achalya tomorrow, the sessions court said.

Among the accused is an alleged ISI agent, Javed Gulam Hassan. One of them, Akram Asgar Ali, died during the trial while Aspak Sayed Ahmed turned approver. Others are Mohammed Yakub Abdul Majeed, Shaikh Shahid Khalid Ansari, Afzal Abdul Hamid, Kadir Mohammed Shafi, Aftab Sayed Ahmed, Iqbal Mohammed Hanif, Jaffer Abdul Shaikh and Farooq Yusuf Shaikh.

According to special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, the accused allegedly hatched a conspiracy in 1997-end at the behest of ISI to create a chain of explosions at railway stations, platforms and railway tracks in and around Mumbai.

In furtherance of the conspiracy, the accused carried out five explosions during January 1998 and February 1998.