Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today said it would hear the applications seeking re-investigation and retrial in the 2010 German Bakery blast case only after hearing the death confirmation petition of the lone convict Himayat Baig.
“We will first hear the confirmation petition and appeal filed by Baig against the conviction on merits. After that we will consider the intervening applications,” said the division bench of Justices P V Hardas and P N Deshmukh.
The HC would decide date for final hearing on January 8.
Baig himself has filed one of the intervening applications seeking a re-trial.
The second one is filed by journalist Ashish Khetan, seeking a fresh probe by an independent agency alleging fabrication of evidence and tutoring of witnesses by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad.
