The NIA court has acquitted all the seven accused in the explosion case in Malegaon in 2008. An organization, which helped the families of the victims in this blast, expressed displeasure over the decision to acquit all the accused and wanted to know who was responsible for it if they were not involved in this act. The organization also said that the court’s decision has failed to provide justice to those killed in the incident.
Six people were killed and 101 others were injured when an explosion in an explosive equipment planted in a motorcycle near a mosque on September 29, 2008, about 200 km from Mumbai, and 101 others were injured. Nearly 17 years after the explosion, a special court in Mumbai, while acquitting all the seven accused, including former MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit of Bharatiya Janata Parti (BJP), said on Thursday, saying that there are ‘no reliable and solid evidence’ against them.
The verdict shocked us: Azmi
Talking to ‘PTI-Bhasha’ after the court’s decision, Feroz Ahmad Azmi, in-charge of the total Jamaat-e-Tanzim organization, said, “The court’s decision in the Malegaon blast case has shocked us, because the dead did not get justice.” He said, “After the bomb blasts in Malegaon, we had asked for the right direction to work in the 2006, and we have always asked the agencies to work in the 2008. Hemant Karkare, the then head of the Anti -Squad (ATS), conducted a proper investigation and a case was registered against these accused. “He also presented all the evidence against these people.
