Mumbai's special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court has sentenced five 2006 Mumbai bomb planters to death for their role in the serial train blasts in Mumbai on the suburban local trains on 11 July 2006. The other seven accused were sentenced to life in jail.

Death was sought for convicts named Kamal Ahamed Ansari, Mohammed Faisal Shaikh, Dr Tanvir Ahmed Ansari, Shaikh Alam Shaikh, Ehtesham Siddiqui, Naved Hussain Khan, Asif Khan, and Mohammed Sajid Ansari.

The death was sought for eight people by the special public prosecutor Raja Thakre and life imprisonment for rest 4, on 23 September 2015, during the hearing on quantum of punishment.

Accused were found guilty of several charges falling under the Indian Penal Code, Indian Railways Act, MCOCA, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Explosives Act, besides murder charges. All of the twelve convicts were found guilty under Sec. 3-1(1) of MCOCA, attracting death penalty, according to Thakre.

2006 Mumbai bomb blasts

In 11 July 2006, a series of seven bomb blasts took place on Suburban Railway in Mumbai, capital of Maharashtra, within 11 minute period. Bombs were set in pressure cookers on trains that travel along Western line of the Suburban Railway network, which is the backbone of the transport network of the nation's financial capital. The 2006 Mumbai bomb blasts killed at least 200 people, leaving 800 people injured.

-Sumana