The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) approached the Supreme Court on Tuesday that a Bombay High Court judgment disputed that all 12 convicts acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai Train Blasts case of 2006. The Tophof agreed to hear the business on 24 July.
[Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that the Centre had approached the Supreme Court against the High Court’s verdict. It was, in fact, the Maharashtra ATS that filed the plea. The error is regretted.]
A bank consisting of supreme judge BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria agreed to hear the case on Thursday. The offer came after Lawyer General Tushar Mehta, who represented the Maharashtra ATS, sought an urgent hearing, stating the urgency of the case.
Yesterday, Bombay’s High Court had destroyed the judgment of the 2009 District Court that the death penalty had been awarded to five accused (one dead) and life sentence to seven others for conspiracy and performing the seven bombs on the Western Railway Local Line van Mumbai on 11 July 2006.
The Division Bank of Justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak ruled that the prosecution was “completely failed” to prove the case and noted that it was “difficult to believe that the accused committed the crime”.
The Supreme Court also marked accusations of torture by ATS officials and noted that researchers were under pressure to deliver quick results after the attacks.
The serial explosions that tore through the western railway trains of Mumbai killed 189 people and were injured more than 800, giving one of the deadliest terror attacks in the country.
The judgment of the Supreme Court has given a considerable blow to the Maharashtra anti-terrorism team, which had investigated the case. The ATS had sustained that the accused was linked to the Islamic movement of the forbidden students of India (Simi) and had tensioned together with Pakistani agents of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) to execute the explosions.
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