2006 Mumbai Local Train Blasts: Bombay High Court Acquits 12 After 19 Years

2006 Mumbai Local Train Blasts: Bombay High Court Acquits 12 After 19 Years
July 21, 2025

Mumbai:
Nineteen years after the 2006 Mumbai train blasts claimed 189 lives and left over 800 people injured, the Bombay High Court today acquitted all 12 people convicted by a lower court in the serial bombing case. In 2015, a trial court had convicted these 12 accused, sentencing five of them to death and the others to life imprisonment.

Setting aside the trial court order, the high court bench of Justice Anil Kilor and Justice Shyam Chandak said the prosecution had “utterly failed” to prove the case against the accused.

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