A local court on Monday sentenced terror convict Waliullah Khan to death for serial blasts in Varanasi that killed at least 20 people 16 years back.

District Sessions Judge Jitendra Kumar Sinha convicted Khan on Saturday but had held back the pronouncement on the quantum of punishment for the blasts in 2006 at Varanasi’s Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple and a railway station. On Monday, Khan was brought to the district court from Dasna Jail under tight security, overseen by a deputy superintendent of police.