The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a petition from the victims families of the 2008 Jaipur serial bomb blasts challenging the Rajasthan High Court’s decision acquitting four accused in the case.
A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Rajesh Bindal accepted the plea filed by family members of the victims and scheduled the matter for hearing on 17th May, 2023.
Families of the victims moved the Supreme Court, challenging a March 29 (2023) Rajasthan High Court order acquitting four accused in the 2008 Jaipur serial bomb blasts.
The four convicts were-Mohammad Saif, Mohammad Sarwar Aazmi, Mohammad Salman and Saif-ur-rehman.
The High Court overturned the trial court’s decision to convict the accused.
The Special Leave Petition (SLP) was filed by the families of the victims of the serial bomb blasts that occurred on May 13, 2008. Nine bombs at seven locations exploded within fifteen minutes in Jaipur, killing 71 people and injuring 185 others.
In total, eight FIRs were filed, four of which were filed at the Kotwali Police Station in Jaipur and the remaining four at the Manak Chowk Police Station in Jaipur.
“The present appeal represents the plight of the huge numbers of innocent citizens and their families who were victims of serial bomb blasts and who have been left in a situation of facing grave injustice arising out of the impugned order whereby, after waiting for justice for more than 14 years, the convicted accused persons have been acquitted on the basis of gross misapplication of law by the High Court,” the petition stated.
The petition also pointed out that the High Court’s entire appreciation of law is so grossly erroneous and contrary to settled principles of law of evidence appreciation that merely reading the impugned order would be enough to shake the top Court’s conscience.
