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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: 9 Freed, 2 still held after acquittal in Mumbai`s 7/11 train blasts

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Nine of the eleven people acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts by the Bombay High Court have been released from prison; the remaining two remain jailed due to other pending cases. We are closing the LIVE blog now

Updated on : 22 July,2025 10:16 PM IST  |  Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Arif Khan freed, Faisal Shaikh remains jailed

The prison department released Arif Khan Bashir Khan, though Mohammed Faisal Rahman Shaikh remains incarcerated due to another pending case. Ethesham Siddiqui and Mohammed Ali Alam Sher Shaikh were released from Nagpur central prison, but their fellow inmate, Naveed Khan, remains in custody as an undertrial in an attempted murder case. Separately, Kamal Ansari, a death row convict in the blasts case, died during the COVID-19 pandemic, an official confirmed

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Sajid Ansari released from Nashik prison; another freed from Yerawada

Sajid Magrub Ansari, a convict in the case who was out on parole from Nashik Road prison, presented himself to officials on Tuesday morning following the high court`s acquittal verdict. After completing necessary formalities, he was released. Meanwhile, on Monday, one of the two prisoners serving sentences was also released from Pune`s Yerawada Central Prison

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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: High Court acquits all 12 accused in 2006 Mumbai train blasts case

Nineteen years after seven train blasts in Mumbai killed over 180 people, the High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 accused. The court stated that the prosecution "utterly failed to prove the case" and found it "hard to believe the accused committed the crime." This ruling overturned their 2015 convictions by a special court, where five had been sentenced to death and seven to life imprisonment. One of the death row convicts had died in 2021

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