India, July 22 -- The Maharashtra government has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court's recent verdict acquitting all 12 men previously convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts, which claimed over 180 lives and injured hundreds. The top court has agreed to hear the plea on July 24.

The state's legal move follows a High Court judgment delivered on Monday, which overturned the convictions handed down by a special court in 2015. That trial had resulted in five death sentences and seven life imprisonments. The High Court found that the prosecution had "utterly failed" to prove its case and declared it "hard to believe the accused committed the crime."

One of the death row convicts, Kamal Ansari, died in 2021. The ...