When 37-year-old Abdul Wahid Din Mohammed Shaikh resumed work at Grant Road-s Jan Mohammed Kasam High School last year, it was the candid questions of the class 7 and 8 students that caught him off guard.

Abdul Wahid Din Mohammed Shaikh, 37, was accused of harbouring Pakistanis who along with 13 Indian conspirators allegedly assembled bombs that went off in the 7/11 blasts at his Mumbra home. He was acquitted in 2015 after 9 years. Although he works at a Grant Road school, the government refuses to release his salary. "It does not believe in my acquittal," he says. Pic/Rana Chakraborty