Supreme Court Orders Release of Four Jaipur Blasts Accused Acquitted by High Court
The top court insisted that it will have to hear all the accused before it can stay their acquittal.
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The top court insisted that it will have to hear all the accused before it can stay their acquittal.
The Rajasthan high court’s description of the police case in the 2008 Jaipur blasts case reads like the film script of a sand castle collapsing in slow motion.
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Unconvinced by the prosecution’s case, a division bench of Justices Pankaj Bhandari and Sameer Jain on Wednesday acquitted Ansari and three others — Mohammed Sarvar Azmi, Mohammed Saif and Mohammed Salman — flagging a “botched investigation” caused by “institutional failure”.
The accused were given capital punishment by a trial court which was challenged in the high court.