Maharashtra challenges acquittal of 2006 Mumbai blasts accused in Supreme Court
The Maharashtra government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Bombay High Court order on Monday acquitting all 12 persons accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court has listed the petition for hearing on Thursday.
On Monday, the High Court acquitted the 12 men accused in the case, holding that the prosecution had “utterly failed” in establishing their guilt. This came nearly 10 years after a special court had sentenced five of them to death and others to life imprisonment.
The case pertains to the seven bomb blasts in suburban trains on Mumbai’s Western Railway line on July 11, 2006, killing 189 persons and injuring 824.
Following a trial under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, a special court had in October 2015 convicted the 12 persons.
The five persons who had been sentenced to death by the trial court are Kamal Ansari, Mohammad Faisal Ataur Rahman Shaikh, Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui, Naveed Hussain Khan and Asif Khan. All had been held guilty of planting the bombs.
Kamal Ansari died in 2021 due to Covid-19 while in the Nagpur Central Jail.
The seven others who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court are Tanveer Ahmed Ansari, Mohammed Majid Shafi, Shaikh Mohammed Ali Alam, Mohammed Sajid Margub Ansari,...
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