The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday upheld the POTA court verdict awarding death sentence to three convicts for the 2002 Akshardham terror attack, which claimed 32 lives.

The division bench of Justices RM Doshit and KM Thakar, while pronouncing the judgement, rejected the appeal of six convicts against the POTA court verdict. Three persons, Adam Ajmeri, Shan Miya alias Chand Khan from Bareily and Mufti Abdul Qyyum Mansuri were awarded death sentence by POTA court in July 2006. The other three accused in the case were sentenced to various prison terms.