Maharashtra In Top Court Against Verdict That Freed 12 In Train Blasts Case

A day after the Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 convicts in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, the Maharashtra government has approached the Supreme Court to challenge the high court verdict. A bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran listed the matter for Thursday after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Maharashtra government, sought an urgent hearing.

Nineteen years after the serial blasts on July 11, 2006, claimed 189 lives and left over 800 people injured, the high court yesterday acquitted all 12 people convicted by a lower court. In 2015, a trial court convicted these 12 accused, sentencing five of them to death and the others to life imprisonment.

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