In his appeal, Wahid Shaikh detailed the physical and psychological torture he suffered, the health complications that followed, and the financial devastation his family faced after he was imprisoned.
Sadaf Modak speaks with advocates Yug Chaudhry and Payoshi Roy, who represented the accused in the train blasts case, about procedures and safeguards in terror probes.
Criminal justice failures capture our imaginations because they speak so profoundly to the human condition, to fundamental questions about punishment, ambition and ethics. Throughout history, in mythology and in reality, there have been people who couldn’t get a fair trial.
From torture claims and confessional statements to witness reliability and call records, the Bombay High Court and the Special Court interpreted the same case very differently
While acquitting the 12 accused on Monday, the Bombay High Court, however, raised doubts over the reliability of accounts of certain witnesses who claimed to have seen some of the accused placing “black rexine bags” with the bomb-filled pressure cookers.
The Bombay High Court acquitted five men previously sentenced to death and 12 others who were given life imprisonment in connection with the 2006 Mumbai local train blasts.
Senior lawyer Muralidhar, representing the two accused Muzzammil Shaikh and Zameer Shaikh argued that there was a “bias” in the probe and “innocent people were sent to jail”.
Iran mission uses donations to buy 40 tonnes of medicine, unable to send them home
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A 40-tonne shipment of medicines bought by the Iranian embassy in India is stranded in New Delhi due to a damaged aircraft. The embassy is seeking alternative ways to deliver the urgently needed medicines, as pharmaceutical companies in Iran are under attack.
