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2025: a year of landmark acquittals questioning credibility of terror convictions in India

Published - December 29, 2025 01:36 pm IST - MUMBAI The court found glaring inconsistencies in the prosecution’s three pillars: confessions, recoveries, and eyewitness accounts. | Photo Credit: PTI The year 2025 will be remembered as a watershed moment for India’s criminal justice system, as two landmark verdicts tore into the foundations of high-profile terror prosecutions and reignited debate on wrongful incarceration. On July 21, a Special Division Bench of the Bombay High Court comprising Justices Anil S.

2025: a year of landmark acquittals questioning credibility of terror convictions in India

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Key Highlights

  • Kilor and Shyam C.
  • Chandak overturned the conviction of 12 men in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, which killed 189 people and injured over 800.
  • The men had spent nearly two decades in prison: five under death sentences and seven serving life terms, before the court declared that the prosecution had “utterly failed” to prove its case.
  • “The prosecution has utterly failed in establishing the case beyond reasonable doubts.
  • It is hard to believe that the accused committed the crime.
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