Summary of this article
- Twelve men were wrongly convicted in the 2006 train blasts; five spent nearly ten years in solitary confinement on death row before all were acquitted in 2025.
- Prison authorities ignored legal distinctions, enforcing isolation, denying work and reading material, and treating all death row inmates as definitively guilty.
- Prolonged incarceration caused severe psychological harm, suicides, and death, including Kamal Ansari’s death in custody, leaving lasting damage despite eventual acquittal.
“Every prisoner is a world of one.”
—Ehtesham Siddiqui and Asif Khan’s decade long death row experiences |