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After 18 years of relentless legal battles, a young man’s life, once shattered by terrorism charges, remains irreparably scarred. 
Arrested when he was only 14 in 2006, his life was traumatised by accusations of being part of a sinister conspiracy to carry out terrorist activities. 
A resident of Rajouri in J&K, he was studying at Tadkeshwar Madrasa near Mandvi in Surat district at the time, according to reports.
Criminal conspiracy and sedition were the charges against him, according to reports. 
Charged under the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the acquittal offers little solace for the lost years of his youth.
With the court’s unexpected ruling, images of that fateful day in 2006 are fading into the past, but the cost of this drawn-out legal battle will forever mark his life.
A priest and former seminary students were among the others arrested, claimed reports. 
The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of Ahmedabad conducted a raid at a Musafir Khana near Kalupur railway station on September 18, 2006, which led to these allegations. The police claimed to have broken up a Lashkar-e-Taiba plot intended at revenge for the Gujarat riots of 2002 during the operation.
Investigators suggested that Muslim youths from Gujarat were being radicalised and sent to Kashmir, Bangladesh, and Pakistan for terror training. They also claimed to have recovered jihadi literature and CDs as evidence.
Initially incarcerated with the other accused, the boy’s minority was established, and he was later transferred to a remand home. The case was then moved to the Juvenile Justice Board in 2007. He was granted bail under the condition that he would not leave Ahmedabad. 
While a city sessions court had previously acquitted some of his co-accused, the JJB proceeded with the case against the juvenile, under Section 14 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
Crucial to the acquittal, three key witnesses—Dinesh Marwadi, Umakant Parmar, and Kamlesh Hakaji—turned hostile. They testified that they were simply passing by the crime branch headquarters at Gaekwad Haveli when they were allegedly called in by the police and made to sign the panchnama without having witnessed any recovery.
Reports added that a three-member panel of the Juvenile Justice Board said the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. In its order, the Board said the prosecution had not established the case against the juvenile beyond reasonable doubt.
The court has ordered that the juvenile’s bail be extended for the next six months.