Raghuvanshi and his team were at the sessions court to hear the verdict as it was pronounce by Special Judge Y D Shinde.
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He found 12 defendants guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy charges and acquitted one person for lack of evidence.
The Special MCOCA court which had convicted 12 persons in connection with the Mumbai 7/11 or the serial train blasts case will deliver the quantum of sentence today.
The convicts were allegedly linked to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
In this photograph taken on July 11, 2006, Indian railway workers and officials clear debris of the first class compartment of a local train which was ripped open by a bomb blast at Khar Mumbai.
The bomb blasts took place at or around Bhayender, Borivali, Jogeshwari, Khar Road, Bandra, Mahim and Matunga Road stations.
Yesterday, the trial in India came to an end after more than seven years.
The bombs were packed into pressure cookers then placed in bags and hidden under newspapers and umbrellas in the trains.
Raja Thakre, who led the state’s legal team, said he hoped for the most severe sentence possible for the convicted men.
Prosecutors said the plot originated with Pakistan’s main military spy agency, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and involved militants from Indian and Pakistan-based extremist organisations.
The prosecution’s case and final statements of the accused were recorded in 2012. The examination of witnesses resumed after two years since the Supreme Court had stayed the trial in 2008.
Police and onlookers stand around a mangled commuter train’s wagon following a series of blasts which targetted India’s financial capital commuters’ network.
The explosions, using around 15-20 kg of RDX, were so powerful that they blew off the double-layered steel roofs and walls of the seven train compartments.
The lone accused who has been acquitted is 38-year-old Abdul Wahid Din Mohammed Shaikh.
“The defence added that the prosecution also couldn’t prove that the accused were at the spot at time of the incident through their call data records (CDR)”.
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He, along with the 22 people who were arrested by the CBI in Mumbai, stated that the Indian Mujahideen was responsible for the blasts. In April 2010, the court dismissed the petition, ordering the trial’s reopening.
