7/11 Mumbai train blasts: Bombay High Court acquits all 12 accused; says prosecution 'utterly failed' to prove case

[coffee_rules]

7/11 Mumbai train blasts: Bombay High Court acquits all 12 accused; says prosecution 'utterly failed' to prove case

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra/711-mumbai-train-blasts-bombay-high-court-acquits-all-12-accused-says-prosecution-utterly-failed-to-prove-case-3639837#google_vignette

 

19 years of investigation, HC acquits all accused. 187 prople died in seven blasts in Mumbai.  Many movies made on these blasts and looks like India is just happy to have similarly coined pop events like 9/11 - we have two of them 7/11 and 26/11!!

 

This will be challenged in the SC of coiurse and Jamaat/Zagat/some ummah will fight for the terrorists! Rojka story of the judiciary system. 

Sad day today. Indian Muslims will feel they can trust the Indian Judiciary system and majority will blame the judiciary as a biased laughing stock. 

 

Who killed 187 people?

[Lord]

Chalo milords can get back to more important things of stashing cash at home or banning movies

[R!TTER]

1 hour ago, coffee_rules said:

Rojka story of the judiciary system. 

Can't blame the judiciary for every such decision, the arseholes in the police/CBI et al just don't do their jobs properly! Sure maybe the bar was set too high, or who knows they might've been bribed as well, but then it's incumbent on the investigative agencies to prove beyond reasonable doubt the culprits were absolutely responsible for this 

[coffee_rules]

 

Can't blame the judiciary for every such decision, the arseholes in the police/CBI et al just don't do their jobs properly! Sure maybe the bar was set too high, or who knows they might've been bribed as well, but then it's incumbent on the investigative agencies to prove beyond reasonable doubt the culprits were absolutely responsible for this 

 

Agree, it is a complete failure, not just judiciary. A lot of times, the investigation is conducted by SITs under a sitting judge who can directly control the straff. Such staff is under Home ministry, but directly reporting to judiciary. If there were delays in investigations, the judges can take suo moto action to speed up. And nobody cares in the media too. This should be such a outrage than some 5 pdd planes being downed or if Akbar is painted as a tyrant in textbooks,

[IndianRenegade]

How aren't people getting fired for botching up such important investigations?

[pkmmamks]

This is either incompetence or abetment 

[coffee_rules]

9 hours ago, IndianRenegade said:

How aren't people getting fired for botching up such important investigations?

Mumbai ATS is one of the best in the country that solved the 1093 blast cases. Multiple governments in MH handled the the 7/11 and 26/11 investigation. It could be vested interests of NCP and Congress which are highly compromised in UPA 1 and 2. Even after 2014, SS and BJP had one 5 year rule, and multiple MVA and SS-BJP-NCP ruled govts , who should get fired and who is accountable? Sad state of Law and Order of the country. 

[Lord]

2 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Mumbai ATS is one of the best in the country that solved the 1093 blast cases. Multiple governments in MH handled the the 7/11 and 26/11 investigation. It could be vested interests of NCP and Congress which are highly compromised in UPA 1 and 2. Even after 2014, SS and BJP had one 5 year rule, and multiple MVA and SS-BJP-NCP ruled govts , who should get fired and who is accountable? Sad state of Law and Order of the country. 

 

That needs another investigation (which will be botched up too)

[Mariyam]

You guys should read this:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/2006-mumbai-train-blasts-how-bombay-hc-picked-holes-in-probe/ar-AA1J2E2L?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=0e437f0080ac4d58a91e83bbf2684992&ei=9

 

Excerpt

• Prosecution failed to establish trustworthiness of witnesses who identified accused and kind of explosives used

• Eight witnesses were examined (taxi drivers who drove accused to Churchgate station, witnesses to planting of bombs on trains, witnesses to bomb assembly, witnesses to conspiracy)

• Taxi drivers were silent for over 100 days after incident after which they gave statement to police that two accused had travelled in their taxis. No special reason (as in, cues, etc) for triggering of their memory and to recollect faces of accused (after so long a period). Witnesses identified accused in court after more than four years; again, no special reason for triggering memory

• Test identification parade (TIP) of accused inadmissible as special executive officer (SEO) who conducted TIP did not have authority to do so. This is for witnesses who claimed to have seen accused planting bombs on trains

• One witness appears to be a stock witness, who acted as a panch witness in four crimes

• Another said he saw accused making bombs upon entering a house, but changed his version during cross-examination. He was also a witness in Ghatkopar blast case

• Witness to the conspiracy, though deposed that he saw accused discussing issues on occasion, admitted that he didn’t know the subject of the discussions

 

 

Here is the full judgement by the HC.

711_train_blasts_judgement_July_21.pdf

 

Essentially the HC is saying that the MCOCA court rushed to announce a verdict. 

 

It may very well be that the accused here are just fall guys who spent years in prison. So that the government then could show that it took some action. The real culprits may very well still be at large.

 

State of Maharashtra has challenged this verdict. Onus on them to prove their points.

Edited July 22, 2025 by Mariyam

[coffee_rules]

4 hours ago, Mariyam said:

You guys should read this:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/2006-mumbai-train-blasts-how-bombay-hc-picked-holes-in-probe/ar-AA1J2E2L?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=0e437f0080ac4d58a91e83bbf2684992&ei=9

 

Excerpt

• Prosecution failed to establish trustworthiness of witnesses who identified accused and kind of explosives used

• Eight witnesses were examined (taxi drivers who drove accused to Churchgate station, witnesses to planting of bombs on trains, witnesses to bomb assembly, witnesses to conspiracy)

• Taxi drivers were silent for over 100 days after incident after which they gave statement to police that two accused had travelled in their taxis. No special reason (as in, cues, etc) for triggering of their memory and to recollect faces of accused (after so long a period). Witnesses identified accused in court after more than four years; again, no special reason for triggering memory

• Test identification parade (TIP) of accused inadmissible as special executive officer (SEO) who conducted TIP did not have authority to do so. This is for witnesses who claimed to have seen accused planting bombs on trains

• One witness appears to be a stock witness, who acted as a panch witness in four crimes

• Another said he saw accused making bombs upon entering a house, but changed his version during cross-examination. He was also a witness in Ghatkopar blast case

• Witness to the conspiracy, though deposed that he saw accused discussing issues on occasion, admitted that he didn’t know the subject of the discussions

 

 

Here is the full judgement by the HC.

711_train_blasts_judgement_July_21.pdf

 

Essentially the HC is saying that the MCOCA court rushed to announce a verdict. 

 

It may very well be that the accused here are just fall guys who spent years in prison. So that the government then could show that it took some action. The real culprits may very well still be at large.

 

State of Maharashtra has challenged this verdict. Onus on them to prove their points.

The country’s leading city ATS is handling the investigation.  My one question is why is  NIA/CBI not handling the investigation? Left to state , there will be many state governments changing more frequently than centre to have one focused team. If a PD like Mumbai’s can’t do a decent job of investigating where 187 people died, we have more to fear than terrorists! How does anything function in a state?  Rajiv Gandhi killers were caught within a month. 

Edited July 22, 2025 by coffee_rules

[coffee_rules]

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/711-blasts-acquittals-defence-team-jamiat-ulama-i-hind-s-dogged-pursuit-of-justice-101753125854976.html
 

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind , the same organization that is defending the killers of Kanhaiya Lal, Kamlesh Tiwari and many terrorism accused in the country is funding and handling the defense team. This is the same organization that fighting to ban the movie Udaipur Files. 
 

Not that anybody wants fall guys to get death sentences- total botched up investigation caught by the defense lawyers who were ex-HC judges!! They would know how things get done by the prosecution. 
 

“

Lawyer Ansar Tamboli said that counsel Yug Chaudhry was central to the defence team. With former high court judges S Murlidhar and S Nagamuthu coming on board, the team was fortified.

Lawyers Chaudhry and Payoshi Roy represented all the accused in the case and made common arguments for them during the morning and afternoon sessions of the hearings, respectively. Senior counsels Nagamuthu and Murlidhar, and senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan argued for two accused each and made their submissions before the court for two days each.”

[crictime]

Those who are fake Mumbaikars will say it is not a fault of BJP or INC or SS or NCP or enquiry agencies and defend the party they blindly support. The whole system is a failure. SO many years and there is no proof to even stand in high court for such a henious terorist attack. 

 

Every time this blast related news is out, I remember of  my friend who lost her boyfriend in this blast. After so many years, if the accustations cannot be proved and the culprits cannot be bought to justice, then I wonder what she must be feeling regarding the state of law and order and various departments of the government. The least she expected after such a long time is that the terorists should be caught and a verdict delivered against them. 

 

 

Even during 26/11 one  friend was hiding in Oberoi when Terrorirst attacked by coming through sea.  Unfortunately many people lost lives.

 

 

It is just not this case. Terrorists and gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim, Haji Mastan , Karim Lala, Vardarajan Mudaliar, Chota Shakeel, Javed Chikna, Tiger Memon who were involved in riots as well. There is no justice given in many crimes done by them.

For those who suffer or have gone trhough all the attacks by these terorist and gangsters, it hardly matters whether the fault is of central government or state government or which agency like CBI or NIA is failing.  It is a failure of the system. It just shows that there is no team work at all.

 

 

It is to the credit of people of Mumbai who have not bowed down to divide and rule politics of Mumbai politicians across all parties, the gangsters and terrorist who have lived here for long that the social fabric of cosmopolitan Mumbai is still intact today. Yes, there have been Bhiwandi riots, the Miraroad riots,92 riots, blast in BEST bus at Ghatkopar but Mumbai has come back strongly. Maharashtrians, South Indians, people from other Nothern and east  belt, Gujaratis, Muslims ,Sikhs, Christians celebrate each other festivals and mingle well in day-to-day life in spite of all what has happened here and still progressed no matter how hard so many have tried to pull this city down. But that does not means the failure of whole system and in this case failure of all parties including the various agencies and system is accepted. 

[coffee_rules]

37 minutes ago, crictime said:

Those who are fake Mumbaikars will say it is not a fault of BJP or INC or SS or NCP or enquiry agencies and defend the party they blindly support. The whole system is a failure. SO many years and there is no proof to even stand in high court for such a henious terorist attack. 

 

Every time this blast related news is out, I remember of  my friend who lost her boyfriend in this blast. After so many years, if the accustations cannot be proved and the culprits cannot be bought to justice, then I wonder what she must be feeling regarding the state of law and order and various departments of the government. The least she expected after such a long time is that the terorists should be caught and a verdict delivered against them. 

 

 

Even during 26/11 one  friend was hiding in Oberoi when Terrorirst attacked by coming through sea.  Unfortunately many people lost lives.

 

 

It is just not this case. Terrorists and gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim, Haji Mastan , Karim Lala, Vardarajan Mudaliar, Chota Shakeel, Javed Chikna, Tiger Memon who were involved in riots as well. There is no justice given in many crimes done by them.

For those who suffer or have gone trhough all the attacks by these terorist and gangsters, it hardly matters whether the fault is of central government or state government or which agency like CBI or NIA is failing.  It is a failure of the system. It just shows that there is no team work at all.

 

 

It is to the credit of people of Mumbai who have not bowed down to divide and rule politics of Mumbai politicians across all parties, the gangsters and terrorist who have lived here for long that the social fabric of cosmopolitan Mumbai is still intact today. Yes, there have been Bhiwandi riots, the Miraroad riots,92 riots, blast in BEST bus at Ghatkopar but Mumbai has come back strongly. Maharashtrians, South Indians, people from other Nothern and east  belt, Gujaratis, Muslims ,Sikhs, Christians celebrate each other festivals and mingle well in day-to-day life in spite of all what has happened here and still progressed no matter how hard so many have tried to pull this city down. But that does not means the failure of whole system and in this case failure of all parties including the various agencies and system is accepted. 

Bhai, Don’t start a story of resilience of people, when we are discussing who is at fault.  I remember arguing with a mumbaikar friend that crowded trains is not the strength of Mumbai , it shows how it is failure. People are living there indifferently without thinking too much about the system. 
 

Can’t believe the leading city unable to solve a murder of 188  people and over a 1000 injured . It is a failure of India

[Lord]

1 hour ago, coffee_rules said:

Bhai, Don’t start a story of resilience of people, when we are discussing who is at fault.  I remember arguing with a mumbaikar friend that crowded trains is not the strength of Mumbai , it shows how it is failure. People are living there indifferently without thinking too much about the system. 
 

Can’t believe the leading city unable to solve a murder of 188  people and over a 1000 injured . It is a failure of India

Common people can't do much. They can vote out the non performing party, but like in this it's case of failures by successive govts

[coffee_rules]

2 hours ago, Lord said:

Common people can't do much. They can vote out the non performing party, but like in this it's case of failures by successive govts

Didn't mean to say they have to do something. But human lives lost in India doesn't have any value either by people or the government.

[Lord]

21 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Didn't mean to say they have to do something. But human lives lost in India doesn't have any value either by people or the government.

 

Yeah but people have to be indifferent and go on about their lives, what else they can do? Not everyone can afford to protests etc

[Mariyam]

20 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

The country’s leading city ATS is handling the investigation.  My one question is why is  NIA/CBI not handling the investigation? Left to state , there will be many state governments changing more frequently than centre to have one focused team. If a PD like Mumbai’s can’t do a decent job of investigating where 187 people died, we have more to fear than terrorists! How does anything function in a state?  Rajiv Gandhi killers were caught within a month. 

The HC is saying that the ATS has done a shoddy investigation. It is short of saying that it has planted witnesses.

 

Anyways, the acquittals are to be challenged in the supreme court tomorrow.

 

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/law-news/story/serious-matter-centre-approaches-top-court-against-high-court-verdict-acquitting-mumbai-train-blasts-accused-2759401-2025-07-22

[mishra]

Seems like some good lawyer managed to punch holes in evidence on basis of process. This is what happens when cases in judiciary lasts for 20 years as new logic , technology , morality and ethics gets invented/ manufactured