India, July 7 -- The Gujarat High Court upheld the 2022 special court verdict awarding the death penalty to 38 convicts and life imprisonment to 11 others in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, one of India's deadliest terror attacks. The court dismissed all appeals filed by the convicts, reaffirming the punishments awarded by the trial court.

A division bench of Justices A.Y. Kogje and Samir J. Dave delivered the judgment after hearing appeals against the convictions and sentences handed down by the special court in February 2022. A detailed copy of the High Court's order is awaited.

The serial blasts took place on July 26, 2008, when 21 coordinated explosions ripped through Ahmedabad within about 70 minutes, killing 56 people and i...