In the second leg of the trial in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, a special TADA court in Mumbai declared Abu Salem and six others guilty of conspiring and organizing the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people were killed in 12 explosions and 713 were seriously injured.

Other than Abu Salem, who attended court wearing a red-checked shirt and navy blue trousers, the others declared guilty on June 16 were Mustafa Dossa, Firoz Khan, Riyaz Siddiqui, Karimullah Shaikh, Mohammad Tahir Merchant alias Tahir Taklya and Abdul Qayyum.

The first leg of the trial which was concluded in 2007 saw the conviction of 100 accused in the case while 23 were acquitted.