Ahmedabad, July 7 -- The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday upheld the sentences awarded to all the convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case.

The High Court pronounced its verdict on the appeals filed by the convicts against the judgment of a special court, which in 2022 had sentenced 38 convicts to death and awarded life imprisonment to 11 others.

On July 26, 2008, 21 serial bomb blasts took place at 20 locations across Ahmedabad within a span of around 70 minutes, triggering panic across the city.

The terror attack claimed 56 lives, while more than 200 people sustained injuries in the explosions.

The Islamic terror group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) had claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Meanwhile, another investigatio...