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The Maharashtra government moved the Supreme Court challenging a Bombay High Court order on Monday acquitting all 12 persons accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case.

The High Court said that the prosecution had “utterly failed” in establishing the guilt of the 12 men. This came nearly 10 years after a special court had sentenced five of them to death and others to life imprisonment.

It remarked that while punishing the perpetrators of a crime is an essential step, creating a “false appearance of having solved a case” leads to a misleading sense of resolution.

The Supreme Court will hear the matter on Thursday. Read on.

‘They knew I was innocent’: Men acquitted of 2006 Mumbai train blasts rue years lost in jail

The Supreme Court refused to examine the legality of the directives issued by the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments requiring eateries along the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage route to display quick response codes with their owners’ identities. The bench reiterated that the eateries must display their licences and registration certificates as required by law.

The petitioners had argued that the governments’ orders violated the court’s 2024 interim...

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