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.
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.
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.
Verdict represents a setback in India’s struggle against terrorism. But it is also an opportunity to reevaluate our approaches to investigation and prosecution
The high court Monday set aside a special court verdict that awarded the death sentence to five accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts, and refused the Maharashtra government’s plea seeking confirmation of their sentences.
Nineteen years later, that legal cell has achieved its most significant victory as the the Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 men convicted by the special court in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case.
Unlike ATS probe, Crime Branch linked the train blasts to an IM module that it had busted after the serial blasts of July 26, 2008. The accused in that case were convicted, and are under trial in other cases
2006 Mumbai Local Train Blasts: There were 13 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, of whom one was acquitted by the special court under the MCOCA. Of the 12, five were sentenced to death, one of whom died in prison, and seven were awarded a life term.
Abdul Wahid Shaikh was acquitted in the 2006 Mumbai train blast case. The raids were part of a multi-state operation against the banned Popular Front of India.
A division bench of Justice Nitin W Sambre and Justice Rajesh S Patil said that it will begin hearing the pleas on a regular basis from October 5 and no adjournment will be granted in the matter.
2 wildfires burn through Southern California in US, evacuations ordered
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Two wildfires erupted in Southern California, United States, on Friday and spread rapidly owing to strong winds. This marked the first major incident of the season amid an ongoing spring heatwave, reported The Guardian. The National Weather Service of the US had issued a wind advisory for parts of the region until midday, cautioning that gusts could reach 50 mph.
