Click to play videoNew Delhi: A special court in Coimbatore will give it verdict in the 1998 serial blasts case on August 1.
There will be tight security cover in place in and around Coimbatore from that day, police sources said.
Measures would be taken to prevent any untoward incident and to ensure normal life after the judgements were pronounced, police sources said.
Besides, a two-tier security would be in place for the designated court, which tried the cases.
A bomb detection and disposal squad, sniffer dogs and armed reserve police keeping tight vigil would be part of this two-tier security, sources said.
One-hundred-and-sixty-six accused, a majority of them members of the proscribed Al-Umma, are the accused.
The 12 blasts, triggered in and around Coimbatore during the visit of BJP leader L K Advani for campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls, claimed 52 lives besides loss of property worth over Rs 100 crore.
The accused include Al-Umma chief S A Batcha Mohammed Ansari and People' Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Mahdhani.
The trial had begun in 2002 and the arguments were completed on April 10 last. The Al-Umma allegedly carried out the blasts in retaliation to the killing of 18 Muslims in communal riots and police firing following the killing of traffic police constable in the city in November 1997.
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