The Supreme Court has suspended the Bombay High Court's decision to acquit all 12 individuals implicated in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. While the accused will remain free, the ruling will not set a precedent due to concerns about its impact on other MCOCA cases.

Victims of the 2006 Mumbai train blasts welcomed the Supreme Court’s stay on the acquittal of 12 accused, calling it a long-overdue step toward justice after years of legal delays and heartbreak.

On Monday, a special high court bench of Justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak acquitted all the 12 accused, saying the prosecution utterly failed to prove the case and it was 'hard to believe the accused committed the crime'.

India's Supreme Court has stayed a recent court verdict which acquitted 12 men who had been convicted for the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. The Bombay High Court had freed the men on Monday, overturning a 2015 special court verdict which gave death penalty to five of the accused and life imprisonment to the remaining seven.

On SC staying Bombay HC judgement acquitting 12 accused persons in 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis says, "We are satisfied that the Supreme Court has stayed this...High Court had acquitted them and that is why Maharashtra Govt had approached the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Bombay High Court verdict acquitting all 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blasts case. The court, however, said there was no question of bringing the 12 back to prison and emphasised that the high court judgement shall not be treated as a precedent.

The Supreme Court has stayed a Bombay High Court ruling that acquitted 12 men in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts. Those acquitted will not, however, go back to jail. Here's why

The Supreme Court has paused the Bombay High Court’s verdict that acquitted 11 people in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, but said they will not be re-arrested. The judgment cannot be used as precedent.