 India will set up a special court for the July Mumbai train bombings to speed up justice for the families of the nearly 200 people killed in the attacks, officials said on Wednesday. Police have accused 19 people, mostly Muslims, in the July 11 attacks on crowded commuter trains and platforms. Charges against them would be filed by the end of November, police said. India’s criminal justice system, burdened by millions of cases and a shortage of judges, typically takes years to grind through trials. Special courts are often established for high-profile cases in an attempt to speed things up, but even then verdicts often take time—a special anti-terrorism court is only now handing out verdicts for 1993 bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people. |