7/11: Out of jail after 20 yrs, but not free
Mumbai, Feb. 23 -- On January 30, when Mohamad Majid Mohamed Shafi, 45, married Simi Shaikh, 38, in Amravati, Maharashtra, it was the culmination of a friendship that began in 2016, but it was also more.
It was a fresh start for Shafi -- and not just because his first wife died in 2021.
It was a fresh start for Shafi because he had spent the previous two decades in jail, serving a life sentence in a terror case.
For his new wife, marrying Shafi was also an act of faith. They first met in 2016, when she was a lawyer working with the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind and he was "Accused no.5" in the 7/11 serial train blasts case of 2006, one of India's biggest and most heinous terror attacks, killing 188 people and injuring 829 others in Mumbai.
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