2006 Mumbai Blasts

SIMI-Lashkar or IM, who carried out the 7/11 terror attacks? 20 years later, probe at square one

July 11, 2026 10:11 am

Acquitting the 12 accused last year, HC questioned the Maharashtra ATS probe; SC refused to interfere with its finding

From death row to law degree: How a 7/11 blasts accused rebuilt his life after 18 years

July 11, 2026 4:45 am

Acquitted by the Bombay High Court last year, Ehtesham Siddiqui is preparing to become a lawyer. Abdul Wahid Shaikh, acquitted in 2015, continues his fight for accountability over wrongful imprisonment.

'None of us travel by train anymore': 20 years after 7/11 Mumbai blasts, survivors wait for justice

July 11, 2026 10:25 am

Twenty years after seven bombs ripped through Mumbai's Western Railway trains on July 11, 2006,, killing 187, survivors speak of permanent disabilities, prosthetics they cannot afford and a fear that never left. Last year's acquittal of all 12 convicted men has reopened old wounds.

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.

"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