Nineteen years ago, on a monsoon-drenched July evening, Mumbai bled. Seven coordinated blasts ripped through first-class compartments of local trains, killing 189 people… commuters, fathers, mothers, students, newlyweds, pensioners… all charred in a blink or torn apart in explosions that were timed to perfection, orchestrated with surgical precision.
And today?
Today, the Bombay High Court tells us that no one is responsible. No conviction. No accountability. No justice.
So, who killed 189 Indians? A ghost? A glitch? God himself?
Let’s not mince words – This is not just a legal failure… this is a collapse of conscience, a betrayal of the dead, and a slap across the grieving faces of the families who once believed the system would stand by them.
From Death Row to Free Men… What Changed?
In 2015, the justice system thundered. Twelve men convicted. Five sentenced to death. Seven handed life terms. The government called it a “victory for justice,” and the nation exhaled, if only slightly, believing closure had arrived.
However, in 2025, the same system declares that the prosecution “utterly failed” to prove the case. That word – utterly – cuts deeper than any blade. It doesn’t say “partially.” It doesn’t say “inconclusive.” It says absolute failure… meaning, for 19 years, we lived a lie.
What About the Families? The Burned Bodies? The Scarred Survivors?
What do we now tell the wife who buried a husband in pieces? The child who grew up an orphan? The man who limps into courtrooms every hearing, spine fused with metal and memory?
That the State failed them… from investigation to conviction to appeal? That the system they pay taxes for, trust their vote with, and raise their children under was a hollow stage for a theatre of errors?
A Country That Moves On Too Fast
We are a nation with a short memory and even shorter outrage cycles. We moved on from 26/11. We moved on from the Uphaar fire. We moved on from Bhopal. Now, we’re expected to move on from seven bombs in eleven minutes that tore through the heart of the middle class families.
But Middle Class Hub refuses to move on.
Because this isn’t just about legalese or judicial nuance… this is about the moral death of accountability. If 189 citizens can be massacred during rush hour and no one is found guilty nearly two decades later, what does that say about the worth of an Indian life?
Where Do We Go From Here?
This editorial is not a call for vengeance. It’s a cry for competence, truth, and basic human dignity.
We demand answers from:
The Anti-Terrorism Squad: How did you get it so wrong?
The State Prosecutors: How do you fail in proving one of the most extensively investigated terror cases?
The Political Class: Where is your shame? Your apology? Your accountability?
So, No One Killed 189 People?
No. Someone did. And today, they walk free… or worse, were never caught. Because somewhere between incompetence and apathy, 189 lives were not just lost… they were erased from justice itself.
And until someone answers for that… the wounds of 11/7 will keep bleeding beneath the surface of every local train, every commuter’s heart, and every conscience that still believes that Indian lives matter.
