Amravati, Jul 21 (PTI) Four of the 12 persons acquitted by the Bombay High Court in the 7/11 train blasts case were released on Monday evening from Amravati Central Jail, with Suhail Sheikh, who was among the four, asserting he was innocent and always had faith in the judiciary and the government.
Sources identified the other three as Tanvir Ahmed Mohammad Ibrahim Ansari, Mohammad Majid Shafi and Zamir Ahmed Latifur Rehman Sheikh, all of whom were in Amravati jail since 2015.
“After nearly 19 to 20 years (in jail) we are being released today. We have a lot of faith in the ‘hukumat’ (government) and the court and that faith worked for us. We had nothing to do with this case. We should have been freed by the sessions court but we got freed from the High Court. We thank the hukumat, the judges and the team of lawyers who fought for us,” Suhail Sheikh, hailing from Pune, told reporters here.
“I was accused of having links with the SIMI (the banned Students Islamic Movement of India) but there was nothing like that,” he said.
To a query on whether he had any demands from the government, he said he had none.
“I would just like to say thank you to all,” Sheikh emphasised.
Seven train blasts on Western Railway’s suburban network in Mumbai on July 11, 2006 had killed more than 180 persons.
Nineteen years later, the Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 accused, saying the prosecution utterly failed to prove the case and that it was “hard to believe the accused committed the crime”. PTI COR CLS BNM
This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.