Two recent acquittals have become part of a provocative discourse in India. First, on July 21, a division bench of the Bombay high court, in a 671-page ruling, overturned the 2015 MCOCA sentencing for the 7/11 serial train blasts, which had horribly torn up Mumbai in 2006.
Second, on July 31, an NIA court in Mumbai, after a protracted trial, acquitted all the accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.
The key similarity in both acquittals is that the prosecutions failed to discharge their duties in establishing the offences beyond reasonable doubt. And then there are glaring dichotomies, which are of grave significance too.
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