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Ashfaq Shaikh outside the Sewri court after he was convicted for life for his involvement in the bomb blast at Santacruz station in 1998. Pic/Datta Kumbharu00a0

In 1998, series of explosions at Kanjurmarg station (January 23), the Goregaon and Malad railway tracks (January 24) and three consecutive bomb blasts on February 27 near Virar station, Santacruz railway station and on platform number two at Kandivali railway station were carried out at the behest of the ISI.