After an over eight-year trial, a special court under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) in October 2015 awarded death penalty to five of the convicts and life terms to seven others.
The plea was filed by Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui who claims that he was falsely implicated in the blasts. He had filed an RTI application, in which he also urged the NIA to consider starting a fresh probe.
That the Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers all is again reflected in the state information commission at Nagpur allowing a second appeal hearing of a death row convict. The hearing was conducted through video conferencing from Nagpur central prison on 15 June 2022.