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Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|July 27, 2025
{ INTERVIEW } YUG CHAUDHRY, ADVOCATE OF 7/11 BLASTS CASE ACCUSED
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MUMBAI: Advocate Yug Chaudhry who led the defence of the 7/11 blasts accused acquitted last week, speaks to HT's Jyoti Punwani about the significance of the Bombay High Court's judgment and how the victims can seek justice.
What are the implications of the stay by the Supreme Court for the acquitted persons?
The fact that they were held innocent has not been stayed. Nor has their release. That's because the judgment is very sound.
The stay has been granted only because of the effect this judgment would have on other MCOCA trials currently on. Because the court agreed with our argument that for MCOCA to be applied, an accused must have been charge sheeted in two cases where the punishment is a minimum of three years, not a maximum of three years. That finding could derail other MCOCA trials.
This order must have had a bracing effect...
This story is from the July 27, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Rajasthan.
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