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TWELVE men were convicted yesterday of the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed 188 people and wounded more than 800.
Judge Yatin D Shinde found them guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy charges and acquitted one man for lack of evidence.
The seven-year trial of the 13 suspects ended in August 2014, but Mr Shinde took one year to write the verdict.
Seven bombs planted on trains exploded within 10 minutes of each other during the evening rush hour in Mumbai on July 11 2006.
Prosecutors said the bombings had been co-ordinated by Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence and carried out by Pakistani Islamist extremist group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.
The 12 were allegedly members of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India, a banned militant organisation working with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.
Their sentences of life imprisonment or death will be announced on Monday.
