Prosecution Utterly Failed: Bombay HC

Nineteen years after seven train blasts here killed more than 180 persons, the Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 accused, saying the prosecution utterly failed to prove the case and it was "hard to believe the accused committed the crime".

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The court allowed the appeals filed by the accused challenging their conviction and sentences imposed on them by a special court in 2015. Of the 12, five had been sentenced to death and seven to life imprisonment by the special court. One of the death row convicts died in 2021. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said his government will challenge the acquittal ruling in the Supreme Court even as he described the HC verdict as "shocking".