2007 Uttar Pradesh Bombings
List of terrorist incidents in India
Attacks with 50+ deaths in italics
- 2001
- Indian Parliament
- Srinagar
- 2002
- 1st Raghunath Temple
- Akshardam Temple
- Kolkata
- Kaluchak massacre
- Qasimnagar massacre
- Rafiganj train
- 2nd Raghunath Temple
- 2002 Mumbai bus bombing
- Kurnool train
- 2003
- 1st Mumbai 2003
- 2nd Mumbai 2003
- 3rd Mumbai 2003
- 4th Mumbai 2003
- 2005
- Ayodhya
- Delhi 2005
- Jaunpur train
- 2006
- Varanasi
- Jama Masjid
- Doda massacre
- Mumbai 2006
- Malegaon
- West Bengal train
- 2007
- Samjhauta Express
- Mecca Masjid
- Hyderabad
- Ajmer Dargah
- Uttar Pradesh
- 2008
- Jaipur
- Bangalore
- Ahmedabad
- 1st Delhi 2008
- 2nd Delhi 2008
- Malegaon/Modasa
- Agartala
- Imphal
- Assam
- Mumbai 2008
- 2009
- 1st Guwahati
- 2nd Guwahati
- 2010
- Bangalore
- Pune
- Dantewada
- Jnaneswari Express
- Jama Masjid Delhi
- Varanasi
- 2011
- Mumbai
- Delhi
- 2012
- Israeli diplomats, Delhi
- Pune
- 2013
- Hyderabad
Six consecutive serial blasts rocked Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad courts in Uttar Pradesh on 23 November 2007 afternoon in a span of 25 minutes, in which reportedly many people were killed and several others injured.
Bombs were explicitly targeted to the lawyers who were working in courts premises at these cities. The first blast occurred in Varanasi civil court and collectorate premises between 13:05 and 13:07 pm. Two successive blasts occurred in Faizabad district court around 13:12 and 13:15, closely followed by one at Lucknow at 13:32.
The blasts came a week after the Uttar Pradesh police along with central security agencies busted a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists which planned to abduct Rahul Gandhi. The blasts may be in retaliation to the arrested terrorists being beaten up by lawyers and not being assigned even a counsel to defend them in the court.
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