India, July 15 -- The Gujarat High Court, while upholding the death sentence of 38 Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, has cited the "humongous" conspiracy, the intention to spread widespread terror and the large number of casualties as key reasons for affirming the punishment.

A division bench of justices AY Kogje and Samir Dave, in its July 7 judgment, also upheld life imprisonment given to 11 other convicts, holding that their roles in terror training camps in Gujarat and Kerala and logistical support to the conspiracy had been proved.

A copy of the order was made available on Monday.

On July 26, 2008, a series of 21 bomb blasts ripped through different areas of Ahmedabad in a span of 70 minutes, killin...