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Abdul Wahid Shaikh expressed sympathy and demanded justice for the relations of the victims killed and maimed within the synchronised blasts that ripped via Mumbai native trains at varied places on the western line on July 11, 2006. File | Photo Credit: PTI
Shaikh raised this demand a day after the Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 accused, noting that the prosecution had totally did not show the case.
Nine years after he was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), the particular court docket in 2015 cleared him of all fees associated to the serial blasts case. The court docket had sentenced 5 of the 12 males to demise and 7 to life imprisonment. One of the demise row convicts died in 2021.
On Monday (July 21, 2025), the excessive court docket launched all 12, noting the prosecution totally did not show the case, and it was “exhausting to imagine the accused dedicated the crime”
Shaikh, who works as a instructor, has been vocal in regards to the torture inflicted by the ATS on 12 individuals. He had penned a book- ‘Begunah Qaidi’- whereas he was behind bars.
The particular bench of the HC additionally said that the accused had been tortured to extort confessional statements.
“The authorities ought to re-investigate the case by organising a Special Investigation Team to be headed by a High Court choose to make sure that the actual perpetrators behind the prepare bomb blasts are arrested,” Shaikh informed PTI.
His different calls for embody an apology from the ATS for the botched investigation, ₹19 crore in compensation to the 12 males who spent 19 years behind bars regardless of being harmless and authorities jobs and homes for them.
“Though very late, these folks lastly bought justice. The HC verdict uncovered the falsehood of ATS”, he mentioned.
Shaikh expressed sympathy and demanded justice for the relations of the victims killed and maimed within the synchronised blasts that ripped via Mumbai native trains at varied places on the western line on July 11, 2006, killing greater than 180 individuals and injuring a number of others.
He remembered the late Assistant Commissioner of Police Vinod Bhat, one of many investigating officers within the prepare bomb blast case.
In his e book, Shaikh had claimed that Bhat was being pressured to manufacture proof and create false witnesses towards the accused individuals. “Today, the soul of ACP Bhat should be completely happy. He ended his life in August 2006 attributable to stress to border harmless individuals on the identical railway observe the place bomb blasts had occurred,” he claimed, including that his demise was recorded as an unintentional demise at Dadar railway police station.
Published – July 22, 2025 05:38 pm IST
