India, July 22 -- Justice JR Midha (retd) of the Delhi High Court once profoundly stated, "In a court of 'justice' both parties know the truth; it is the judge who is on trial." For anyone familiar with the quality of evidence presented in the 2006 7/11 Mumbai serial train blast case, the Bombay High Court's decision on Monday to acquit 11 men (Kamal Ansari passed away while the proceedings were pending)-five of whom had been sentenced to death by a trial court in 2015-was simply a discharge of its duty.

This article won't delve into the unspeakable horrors of the third-degree torture these men endured in prison and later testified to in court, nor the agonizing wait for judgment that stretched from days into months, years, and even deca...