The Bombay High Court on Monday started day-to-day hearings on the appeals related to the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, 18 years after the terror attack shook the city’s Western Railway network, resulting in the loss of over 180 lives and leaving several others injured.

A special bench comprising Justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak will hear appeals from the convicts challenging their sentences and the state government seeking confirmation of the death penalty on five of the 12 convicts. The remaining were sentenced to life imprisonment.