Ahmedabad, May 5 -- After over 33 years, a special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act) court in Jamnagar on Monday convicted 12 persons in a 1993 case involving the smuggling of arms and explosives along the Gujarat coast, a conspiracy linked to fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his associates Tiger Memon and Chhota Shakeel.

The case relates to a conspiracy allegedly hatched by Dawood, later designated an international terrorist, and associates based in Dubai and Pakistan to avenge the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992, by smuggling a large consignment of arms and explosives, including RDX, into India via the sea route to carry out attacks and trigger communal unrest.

Of the 46 accused in the ...