India, July 21 -- The Bombay high court on Monday acquitted 12 persons in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, setting aside their convictions ranging from life term to death penalty.

The court noted that the prosecution "utterly failed" to prove the case against all the accused in the terror attack that shook Mumbai and the nation on July 11, 2006.

A special bench of justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak decided that the prosecution's evidence was not conclusive in convicting the accused persons.

The judgment comes 19 years after the terror attack that struck the city's Western Railway network, resulting in the loss of over 180 lives and leaving several others injured.

The 12 convicts who were acquitted by the Bombay high court in the ...