Ahmedabad, July 7 -- Gujarat high court on Tuesday upheld the special court's 2022 order sentencing 38 convicts to death and 11 others to life imprisonment in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, which claimed 56 lives and injured 246 persons.

On July 26, 2008, a series of 21 bomb blasts took place across 20 locations in Ahmedabad within a span of 70 minutes. Two days later, live bombs were recovered from Surat. The city crime branch named more than 100 persons as accused, while 78 were put on trial.

A division bench of Justice A.Y. Kogje and Justice S.J. Dave heard appeals against the 7,015-page special court judgment and the state government's plea seeking confirmation of the death sentences awarded to the 38 convicts.

The trial was con...