During the hearing, senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Purohit, said he had been in jail for the past nine years but charges had still not been framed against him.
Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in the Nasik district of north Maharashtra.
Sadhvi Pragya had moved the court earlier this month seeking her discharge in the Malegoan bomb blast case.
Sadhvi and Purohit had moved the Bombay High Court after a trial court rejected their bail pleas last year.
Malegaon bomb blasts accused, former Lt Col Prasad Purohit today charged the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad of fabricating evidence against him in the 2008 case.
In a surprising revelation in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, a suspended police officer has claimed that two key accused in the case, viz., Sandeep Dange and Ram Kalsangra, are “no more” but have still been shown as alive by police officers.
A special court for NIA cases here today rejected bail application of Lt Col Prasad Purohit observing that a prima-facie case exists against the 2008 Malegaon blast accused.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court today rejected the bail application of 2008 Malegaon blast accused, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.
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A Special NIA court today rejected the bail application of 2008 Malegaon blast case accused Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.
Mumbai: Nisar Ahmed Sayyed Bilal, one of those injured in the September 2008 blast at Malegaon in north Maharashtra, has moved a special court here seeking rejection of the charge sheet filed by NIA which
Panaji: Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Friday termed the earlier investigation in the 2008 Malegaon blast case as a "dramatic kind of act created by the Congress" and a "game plan
New Delhi, May 16: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today strongly refuted charges that Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya was given a clean chit by NIA because of "pressure" from BJP-led government. "On the contrary, false
New Delhi: Hitting back at the Congress for targeting the NIA and the NDA government over a clean chit to Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur and five others, the BJP said on Saturday
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju defended NIA move to drop charges against several accused in 2008 Malegaon blast case
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided to drop Sadhvi Pragya Thakur name from its chargesheet in the 2008 Malegaon blast case to be filed in a Mumbai court today.
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