The excessive court docket's order on Monday got here practically a decade after a particular court docket discovered them responsible and awarded the loss of life penalty to 5 and life sentences to seven.
Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta, showing on behalf of the state authorities, urged a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai for an pressing itemizing of the matter. “It's a severe matter. SLP (particular go away petition) is prepared. Please listing it tomorrow. There's urgency,” Mehta urged the bench. The CJI agreed to listing the attraction on Wednesday.
As many as 187 had misplaced their lives within the serial bomb blasts on July 11, 2006, when seven bombs exploded in suburban trains on Mumbai's Western Railway line. The particular court docket convicted the 12 accused in 2015. One of many convicts died as a result of Covid-19 in 2021 within the Nagpur jail.
The Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Monday acquitted all of the accused observing that “the prosecution completely failed in establishing the case past affordable doubts”. It noticed that the prosecution's case gave the general public a “deceptive sense of decision” whereas “the true menace stays at massive”.
