Timeline of 1993 Mumbai blasts: All you need to know

March 10, 1993

Yakub Memon and family flees from Mumbai

March 12, 1993

Series of powerful blasts rip Mumbai through 13 places killing 257 people and injuring 713

March 14, 1993

The breakthrough in the investigation is achieved with the recovery of an RDX-laden Maruti van registered in the name of Tiger Memon's sister-in-law.

March 18, 1993

First arrest: Tiger Memon's manager Asgar Mukadam held

April 19, 1993

Sanjay Dutt arrested on his return form from Mauritius on charges of illegal possession of a 9mm pistol and AK-56 rifle and ammunition

April 28, 1993

Dutt confesses about possession of arms and later destroying it

May 5, 1993

Bombay High Court (HC) grants bail to Dutt

November 4, 1993

Mumbai crime branch files a 10,000 page charge sheet naming 189 accused, including Dutt

November 19, 1993

CBI takes over the case

April 1, 1994

TADA court shifts from city sessions and civil court to a separate building on the premises of Arthur Road Jail, Byculla

April 10, 1994

26 accused discharged by TADA court; charges framed against others. Supreme Court discharges travel agent Abu Asim Azmi and Amjed Meher Baux

April 19, 1994

Trial begins

July 4, 1994

Trial court cancels Dutt’s bail, arrests him

August 5, 1994

CBI claims that Yakub has been arrested from New Delhi, however he claims he willingly gave himself up in Nepal on July 28,1994

October 14, 1994

SC grants bail to Dutt which is later cancelled by the trial court.

November 20, 1994

Dutt takes back his confession.

April-June 1995

Charges framed against accused

June 30, 1995

Two accused Mohammed Khatlab and Usman Jan Khan turn approvers

June 30, 1995

First witness of 684 examined

October 14, 1995

Dutt granted bail by SC

March 23, 1996

Judge JN Patel transferred and elevated to the Bombay HC

March 29, 1996

PD Kode takes over trial from JN Patel

July 1999

Yakub writes to India’s SC seeking relief from the case. In his letter, he says he voluntarily returned to India.

October 2000

Examination of 684 prosecution witnesses ends.

August 9, 2001

Prosecution begins arguments.

October 18, 2001

Prosecution completes arguments.

November 9, 2001

Defence begins arguments.

August 22, 2002

Defence completes arguments.

Feb-Mar 2003

Ejaz Pathan and Mustafa Dossa deported from Dubai and court decides to separate gangster Mustafa Dossa’s trial in the case.

September 2003

Trial ends. Court reserves judgement.

November 2005

Abu Salem extradited from Portugal. Trial separated. He is accused of transporting weapons from Gujarat to Mumbai.

June 13, 2006

Abu Salem’s trial separated

August 10, 2006

Judge PD Kode announces ‘September 12’ as the judgement day.

September 12, 2006

TADA court pronounced verdict. 4 members of Memon family held guilty.

November 2006

Dutt gets convicted under Arms Act and acquitted uner TADA.

May 9, 2007

Court formally acquits 23 accused

July 18, 2007

First death penalties in the case for Parvez Nazir Shaikh, Mushtaq Tarani and Abdul Gani Turk pronounced

July 31, 2007

Justice PD Kode wraps up the 14 year long case. Dutt six years rigorous imprisonment.

August 20, 2007

Dutt appeals against the sentence, moves to SC

November 1, 2011

SC begins hearing on appeals filed by Dutt and 100 other convicts as well as the state.

August 29, 2012

SC reserves its order on the appeals.

March 21, 2013

SC upholds death sentence of convict Yakub Memon, brother of Tiger Memon, and commutes death sentence of 10 convicts to life term. Life imprisonment of 16 of 18 convicts also upheld

May 16, 2013

Sanjay Dutt surrenders before the TADA court. He is later taken to Arthur Road jail. Four other convicts -- Yusuf Nulwalla, Kersi Adajania, Essa Memon, and Altaf Syed -- also surrender the same day.

May 22, 2013

Sanjay Dutt is secretly shifted to Yerawada Jail and is given qaidi number C- 16656

October 2013

Yakub Memon apply for presidential pardon

April 11, 2014

President Pranab Mukherjee rejects Yakub's mercy plea.

May 21, 2014

The mercy plea of Memon is rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee

June 2, 2014

The SC stays the execution of Memon on plea seeking review petitions in death cases to be heard in open court instead of chambers.

June 19, 2014

The CBI files a supplementary chargesheet against one of the under-trials, Feroz Rashid Khan, in order to disprove his claim of mistaken identity who claimed that his name was 'Hamza' and not Firoz Khan alias Firoz Taklya.

July 15, 2014

The SC reserves its order on the mercy plea of Memon seeking to convert penalty into life term

September 26, 2014

SC stays Memon’s execution and issues notices on his petition seeking an open court hearing of his plea for a review of the death sentence

April 9, 2015

SC bench dismisses Yakub's plea

May 2015

Yakub Memon files a curative petition seeking justice against death sentence

July 21, 2015

SC rejects Yakub's curative petition. He would be hanged on July 30, 2015

July 21, 2015

Yakub then files mercy petition to Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao. SC rejects Yakub Memon’s petition.

July 23, 2015

Memon moves the SC seeking a stay on the execution of his death sentence

July 26, 2015

270 eminent personalities including eight leading jurists and nine MPs file a plea before President Pranab Mukherjee seeking mercy and stay against execution of Yakub Memon

July 28, 2015

SC refers the petition challenging Yakub's death warrant to a three member bench following a split verdict by a two-judge bench

July 29, 2015

The three member bench rejects Yakub's plea seeking and upholds the death warrant

July 30, 2015

Yakub Memon is hanged

February 25, 2016

Dutt released from Yerwada jail.

May 29, 2017

The TADA court announces June 16 as the date for pronouncement of judgement on trial against Abu Salem and other six accused.

June 16, 2017

TADA court finds Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa and Mohammed Dossa guilty of murder and conspiracy in connection with 1993 Mumbai blast case. The court also convicts Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan, and Karimullah Sheikh under charges of conspiracy and murder under sections of IPC, TADA and Explosives Act. The court convicts Tahir Merchant in the case.