Nine of the eleven individuals recently acquitted by the Bombay High Court in the 7/11 serial train blasts case have been released from various prisons across Maharashtra. However, two others will remain incarcerated due to other pending cases against them, officials confirmed on Tuesday, reported news agency PTI.

Nineteen years after seven train blasts in Mumbai killed more than 180 people, the High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 accused. The court stated that the prosecution "utterly failed to prove the case" and found it "hard to believe the accused committed the crime."

Furthermore, the court allowed the appeals filed by the accused, challenging their convictions and sentences imposed by a special court in 2015. Of the 12, five had been sentenced to death and seven to life imprisonment by the special court. One of the death row convicts died in 2021, PTI reported.