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Abdul Wahid Din Mohammed Shaikh outside Arthur Road jail. (Express Photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)

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.

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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.

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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.

Mumbai train blasts acquittal: Justice must be tangible, not merely aspirational

July 22, 2025 3:34 pm

Verdict represents a setback in India’s struggle against terrorism. But it is also an opportunity to reevaluate our approaches to investigation and prosecution

2006 Mumbai train blasts | Verdict shocking, govt will challenge it in SC: Devendra Fadnavis

July 21, 2025 9:04 pm

The high court Monday set aside a special court verdict that awarded the death sentence to five accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts, and refused the Maharashtra government’s plea seeking confirmation of their sentences.

The man who defended the train blast accused: Gulzar Azmi’s fight ends in acquittal

July 21, 2025 8:23 pm

Nineteen years later, that legal cell has achieved its most significant victory as the the Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 men convicted by the special court in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case.

Mumbai 7/11 acquittals: 17 yrs ago, gaps in probe, question mark over identity of accused

July 22, 2025 7:06 am

Unlike ATS probe, Crime Branch linked the train blasts to an IM module that it had busted after the serial blasts of July 26, 2008. The accused in that case were convicted, and are under trial in other cases

A series of bombs exploded on seven western suburban coaches, killing 189 commuters and injuring 824 on July 11, 2006.

2006 Mumbai train blasts: Bombay HC acquits all 12 convicts, sets aside their death penalty and life terms

July 21, 2025 1:11 pm

2006 Mumbai Local Train Blasts: There were 13 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, of whom one was acquitted by the special court under the MCOCA. Of the 12, five were sentenced to death, one of whom died in prison, and seven were awarded a life term.

PFI case: NIA raids several locations, activist acquitted in blast case alleges harassment

October 12, 2023 8:41 pm

Abdul Wahid Shaikh was acquitted in the 2006 Mumbai train blast case. The raids were part of a multi-state operation against the banned Popular Front of India.

7/11 train blasts case: Maharashtra appoints special public prosecutor to conduct hearing of pleas after HC rap

September 08, 2023 4:08 pm

A division bench of Justice Nitin W Sambre and Justice Rajesh S Patil said that it will begin hearing the pleas on a regular basis from October 5 and no adjournment will be granted in the matter.