Gujarat High Court to pronounce verdict today in 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case

A division bench of Justices AY Kogje and Samir Dave also upheld the sentence of life imprisonment given to the remaining 11 persons. The court rejected all appeals filed by the convicts.

Twenty-two explosions had ripped through the city on July 26, 2008, leaving 56 dead and more than 200 injured. A special court had in February 2022 convicted the 49 persons, of whom 38 were sentenced to death, and the others were given life imprisonment.

Twenty-eight persons had been acquitted in the case and one person accused in the matter had turned an approver for the prosecution, Bar and Bench reported.