Supreme Court overturns death sentence in 1996 Rajasthan bus blast case, mandates a fresh trial due to fair trial violations.

Fourteen people were killed and 37 injured in the blast on a bus on the Jaipur-Agra Highway on May 22, 1996, a day after the Lajpat Nagar bomb blast in Delhi, in which 13 people…

The Supreme Court ordered a fresh trial for a death row convict in a 1996 bus blast case. It also acquitted a lifer and dismissed state appeals against six acquittals. The court…