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

On Monday, July 21, 2025, the Supreme Court of Bombay broke the conviction of 12 people in the 2006 Mumbai train explosion case and acquitted them, and said that the prosecution was “completely unsuccessful” to prove the case against them.

The decision comes 19 years after the terrorist attack that shakes the western railway network, which causes the loss of more than 180 lives and others to be injured.

Justicees Anil and Shyam Chandak, a special bench, said the evidence that the prosecution trusts is not certain to condemn the defendants.

HC, “the prosecutor’s office could not prove the case completely against the defendants. It is difficult to believe that the defendants committed the crime. Therefore, their conviction was broken and left aside.” He said.

The bench said that the prisoners refused to confirm the death penalty imposed on five and the life imprisonment of the rest of the seven people and acquitted them.

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The court said the defendants would be released from prison if they did not want in another case.

In 2015, a private court sentenced 12 people who were sentenced to death and sentenced to life imprisonment for the remaining seven people.

HC’s decision was pronounced on Monday, July 21, 2025, and the convicts produced in front of the court through a video conference through various prisons throughout the state thanked their lawyers.

On July 11, 2006, seven explosions from Mumbai local trains in various parts of the Western line killed more than 180 people and injured several people.