Nearly two decades after the 2006 Malegaon blasts killed 31 people, the Bombay High Court’s judgement has collapsed the last standing prosecution. By quashing the charges against the four remaining accused, the court has effectively closed a case that traversed three agencies, two mutually exclusive theories and 19 years without a single conviction. If justice delayed is justice denied, then justice rewritten is something worse. The Malegaon saga is a stark indictment of how