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India court acquits 12 in deadly 2006 train blasts case

India court acquits 12 in deadly 2006 train blasts case

Arab News21-07-2025
MUMBAI, India: An Indian court acquitted on Monday 12 men previously convicted for a series of bomb blasts that ripped through packed commuter trains in Mumbai in 2006 that killed 187 people.
The men were convicted in 2015 of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against the country over the attacks during the evening rush hour of July 11, 2006 that also injured more than 800 people.
Five were sentenced to death, while the other seven were given life imprisonment.
But, 10 years later, the Bombay High Court set aside a lower court's verdict and acquitted the 12 men.
Justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak said in their judgment, the prosecution had 'utterly failed to establish the offense beyond the reasonable doubt against the accused on each count.'
The men were ordered to be released from jail 'if they are not required to be detained in any other case.'
The prosecution can appeal against the order in the Supreme Court.
A total of seven blasts ripped through the trains after the bombs, packed into pressure cookers, were placed in bags and hidden under newspapers and umbrellas.
Prosecutors said the devices were assembled in Mumbai and deliberately placed in first-class coaches to target the city's wealthy Gujarati community.
They said the bombings were intended as revenge for the riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002, which left some 2,000 people dead, most of them Muslims.
Prosecutors accused Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of being behind the attacks, although a little-known outfit called the Lashkar-e-Qahhar later claimed responsibility.
Pakistan denied the allegations.
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