Basha, 84, was the founder-president of the banned outfit Al-Umma and had been serving life imprisonment for the blasts that claimed 58 lives and injured 231 people. Also Read: Renukaswamy murder ...

Al Umma founder S A Basha, himself an accused in the case, had been acquitted, intelligence sources said. Its members were accused of the murder of Hindu Munnani state president Rajagopalan.

Coimbatore: The body of S A Basha, the mastermind of the 1998 serial bomb blasts that rocked Coimbatore, was taken in a procession amidst heavy police security and buried on Tuesday evening.