Bombay High Court Acquits 12 Bombay Bombers in 2006 Mumbai Train Blasts Case

• The Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts case, overturning a 2015 verdict.

• The court sentenced five to death and seven to life imprisonment.

• The High Court indicted the Mumbai Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

• The judgment ordered the release of 11 men after 19 years of incarceration.

• One of the accused died in custody in 2021 due to COVID-19.

• Wahid Shaikh, who had spent nine years in prison before being exonerated, was acquitted earlier by the trial court in 2015.

• The Supreme Court stayed the High Court’s verdict due to potential adverse implications for ongoing trials under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA).