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.
As the accused sought speedy disposal of the matter, the HC in July 2024, constituted a special bench led by Justice Kilor, which conducted regular hearings through more than 75 sittings
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”.
Among the arguments submitted by Siddiqui seeking further investigation was that a wanted accused named by the ATS for allegedly bringing Pakistan nationals to the city to plant bombs in 2006, was lodged in prison between 2005 and 2007.
While five of the men were sentenced to death, seven others, including Ansari, alleged to have provided material and support for the terror attack, were sentenced to life imprisonment. Ansari has been behind the bars since 2006.
Call data records (CDRs) produced before the special MCOCA court hearing the July 11,2006 Mumbai train bombings case have indicated that phones belonging to three men accused of planting bombs on Virar-bound trains at Churchgate were actually nowhere near the station on that day.
Days after the call data records were made available to the accused in the July 11,2006,serial train blasts case,the prosecution on Monday pointed out that two accused had been in touch at least since February.
To speed up trial in the German Bakery blast case,the prosecution has moved an application to admit evidence of formal witnesses - like those injured and those who claimed bodies of the dead in the attack - by way of affidavits as done in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case and the 2006 serial train blasts case.
The defence lawyer in the 2006 serial train blasts case on Wednesday raised doubts on the credibility of a panch witness and alleged that he was a stock witness of the Anti terrorism Squad.
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.
