A Tale Of Two Acquittals

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Recent judgments in the 7/11 and Malegaon terror cases show similarities as well as dichotomy. These suggest how law has become weaponised for political expediency

Two recent acquittals have become part of a provocative discourse in India. First, on July 21, a division bench of the

Bombay high court

, in a 671-page ruling, overturned the 2015 MCOCA sentencing for the

7/11 serial train blasts

, which had horribly torn up Mumbai in 2006.
Second, on July 31, an NIA court in Mumbai, after a protracted trial, acquitted all the accused in the 2008

Malegaon bomb blast case

.

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