Mumbai: The Bombay High Court acquitted twelve convicts convicted in the train bombings after 19 years, the trial court sentenced them to life imprisonment and death.
According to the details, the Mumbai High Court had pronounced the verdict in the train bombings in 2006, Indian media reported that the High Court acquitted twelve accused in the Mumbai train bombings.
One of the twelve accused had died during the appeal, the 2-member bench of the High Court, Justice Anil Kelur and Justice Shyam Chandik, said in its verdict that the Mumbai prosecution failed to provide evidence against the accused.
The Indian court also said that the police tortured them to extract confessions, the evidence is not good and the witnesses are unreliable, it is difficult to believe that these people committed this crime, so their sentences are overturned and they are acquitted.
Indian media says that eleven accused in the Mumbai train attacks will be released from jail.
The accused include Faisal Sheikh, Asif Khan, Kamal Ansari, Ehtesham Siddiqui, Naveed Khan, Muhammad Sajid Ansari, Muhammad Ali, Dr. Tanveer Ansari, Majid Shafi, Muzammil Sheikh, Sohail Sheikh and Zameer Sheikh.
It may be recalled that in July 2006, 189 people were killed and 824 injured in the Mumbai train blasts.
Later, the trial court convicted twelve accused in 2015, the trial court awarded death sentence to five accused and other sentences to the rest.
