Topic: Fabricated Police stories

Nearly three decades after he was thrown into prison for a blast that killed 18 people, the Allahabad High Court has acquitted Mohammad Ilyas in the 1996 Modinagar–Ghaziabad bus bombing, ruling that the State had failed to prove even the basic charges against him.

Nearly a decade after his acquittal, Dr. Wahid Shaikh, who spent nine years in prison after being falsely accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, has approached the National Human Rights Commission, the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission, and the state’s Minorities Commission, seeking ₹9 crore in compensation for the “irreparable losses” he suffered due to wrongful incarceration and torture.

The National Human Rights Commission and the Uttar Pradesh State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have issued notices to Bareilly Police in Uttar Pradesh over serious allegations of illegal detention and custodial torture of seven Muslim men in Bareilly, falsely accused of being part of a “conversion racket.”

The Allahabad High Court has intervened in the case of seven Muslim men from Bareilly, who were allegedly forcibly picked up by some men from their homes and workplaces at different intervals of time in August, asking top police officials of Bareilly Police to appear in person on September 8, clarifying their positions and the accusations of the detainees.

Innocence Network has welcomed the Bombay High Court’s decision to acquit all 12 Muslim men previously convicted in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai suburban train bombings and to overturn the death and life sentences imposed in 2015 by a special MCOCA court.

After spending nearly two decades behind bars, the Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 Muslim men accused of orchestrating the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts that killed 189 people and injured over 800, observing that "the prosecution utterly failed in establishing the case beyond reasonable doubts.”