Evidence put 7/11 Mumbai blasts accused on death row; now NIA, intelligence and police files are questioning that proof In perhaps the most bizarre story to ever emerge from India’s criminal justice system, five innocent men may be on death row while those who carried out the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, some of them in prison, have never been prosecuted for their crime. Praveen Swami December 28, 2020 09:00:29 IST One of the coaches in which explosives were set off during the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings. Reuters/File Photo
Early one summer morning in 2006, five men gathered inside a dingy apartment in the Deccan Cooperative Society in Sewri, on the eastern fringes of South Mumbai. The men busied themselves moulding a black, plasticky goo, its texture not dissimilar to the Play-Doh thousands of kindergarten children would have been amusing themsel