Mumbai, July 21 -- Expressing shock over Bombay High Court's decision to acquit 12 accused of 2006 Mumbai blasts, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday announced that the state government will challenge the decision in the Supreme Court.

"The verdict of the Bombay High Court is very shocking and we will challenge it in the Supreme Court", CM Fadnavis told reporters.

Earlier today, one of the acquittees, Mohammed Sajid Ansari, said that he was being framed by Mumbai Police from the beginning and that he was "innocent".

Ansari pointed out that the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) created a false narrative about the matter, and all the confessions were extracted by torturing them. He stated that 19 years of his life have been l...