1993 bombing of RSS office in Chennai

Chennai RSS office bombing
Location	Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Date	8 August 1993
Deaths	11
Injured	7
Perpetrators	Islamists

13°00′25″N 0°12′11″E / 13.007°N 0.203°E / 13.007; 0.203 1993 bombing of RSS office in Chennai refers to the bombing of a head office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Chennai in Tamil Nadu on 8 August 1993 by Islamist terrorists. The bombings left eleven people dead and seven others injured.

The special CBI court tried eighteen of the accused under the now-defunct Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act. They had been earlier given life imprisonment by a TADA court in Chennai for their involvement in the blast on 8 August 1993 at the RSS office in Chennai. The CBI has announced a reward of Rs.10 lakh for providing credible information about Mushtaq Ahmed, one of the main accused in the blast.^[1] Ahmed was later arrested in January 2018, 24 years after the incident occurred.^[2]

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CBI [3] arrested Mustaq Ahmed from the outskirts of Chennai, CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.

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