On July 26, 2008, a series of 21 bomb blasts ripped through Ahmedabad in a span of 70 minutes, killing 56 persons and injuring 200 others.

The Gujarat High Court upheld the special court's 2022 verdict sentencing 38 convicts to death and 11 others to life imprisonment in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case. The coordinated attacks killed 56 people and injured over 200 across multiple locations in the city.