Overview

• Dr Wahid Shaikh filed petitions with the National Human Rights Commission, Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission, and national and state minority commissions seeking Rs 9 crore and rehabilitation support.
• He says custodial torture left him with glaucoma and chronic pain and that his family incurred about Rs 30 lakh in debt alongside lasting social and economic harm.
• Shaikh, acquitted by a special MCOCA court in 2015 after nine years in jail, argues he waited to seek damages until his co-accused were cleared this July.
• The Bombay High Court on July 21 acquitted all 12 men convicted in the 2006 train blasts case, citing failure of proof by the prosecution.
• The Supreme Court later stayed the High Court ruling during Maharashtra’s appeal but allowed the acquitted men to remain free, leaving final legal liability unresolved.