2006 Mumbai Blasts

Acquitted in 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case, teacher seeks Rs 9 crore compensation for wrongful incarceration

September 12, 2025 3:00 pm

In his appeal, Wahid Shaikh detailed the physical and psychological torture he suffered, the health complications that followed, and the financial devastation his family faced after he was imprisoned.

‘Investigation in the train blast case is a sad comment on how little policing has changed since 1872’

August 18, 2025 12:05 pm

Sadaf Modak speaks with advocates Yug Chaudhry and Payoshi Roy, who represented the accused in the train blasts case, about procedures and safeguards in terror probes.

In Mumbai train blast acquittals, the end of an error

July 27, 2025 3:57 pm

Criminal justice failures capture our imaginations because they speak so profoundly to the human condition, to fundamental questions about punishment, ambition and ethics. Throughout history, in mythology and in reality, there have been people who couldn’t get a fair trial.

Young Edge: Pune law students react after Bombay HC acquits 12 convicts in 2006 Mumbai train blasts: 'This judgment opens up a thousand new questions'

July 24, 2025 1:41 pm

Pune law students see the verdict of the Bombay High Court as a systemic failure and a tragic miscarriage of justice.

Tale of 2 Mumbai blasts verdicts: Five ways in which the special MCOCA court and Bombay High Court differed

July 23, 2025 6:22 pm

From torture claims and confessional statements to witness reliability and call records, the Bombay High Court and the Special Court interpreted the same case very differently

Mumbai 7/11 blasts: How the prosecution's pressure cooker theory blew up in court

July 23, 2025 7:18 am

While acquitting the 12 accused on Monday, the Bombay High Court, however, raised doubts over the reliability of accounts of certain witnesses who claimed to have seen some of the accused placing “black rexine bags” with the bomb-filled pressure cookers.

'His daughter has grown up without her father': Families of men acquitted in 2006 Mumbai train blasts case recount years of struggle

July 22, 2025 4:52 am

The Bombay High Court acquitted five men previously sentenced to death and 12 others who were given life imprisonment in connection with the 2006 Mumbai local train blasts.

Explained: The 2006 Mumbai train blasts, in which Bombay HC has acquitted all 12 accused

July 21, 2025 3:13 pm

2006 Mumbai Local Train Blasts Explained: What were the charges against the accused, and what delayed the hearings?

2006 Mumbai train blast: Why Bombay HC took over 9 years to conclude hearings on death sentence confirmations, appeals

July 21, 2025 12:56 pm

On July 11, 2006, bomb blasts in Mumbai local train coaches killed 189 people. Why were hearings related to sentencing in the case delayed?

Accused in 2006 train blasts innocent, languishing in jail for 18 years without sufficient evidence: Bombay HC told

January 14, 2025 1:11 am

Senior lawyer Muralidhar, representing the two accused Muzzammil Shaikh and Zameer Shaikh argued that there was a “bias” in the probe and “innocent people were sent to jail”.

"We Planted Bombs" says IM's Sadiq Sheikh Who Wasn't Convicted In 7/11 Mumbai Train Blasts Case

October 01, 2015 10:42 am