India, July 31 -- In a landmark verdict 17 years after the deadly Malegaon blast, a special NIA court in Mumbai on Thursday acquitted all seven accused, including BJP leader and former MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, citing lack of conclusive evidence and procedural lapses. The 2008 explosion, which occurred in the communally sensitive town of Malegaon in Maharashtra's Nashik district, claimed six lives and left over 100 injured.
elivering the judgment, Special NIA Judge A.K. Lahoti stated that while the prosecution established that a bomb blast occurred - involving explosives allegedly fitted to a motorcycle - it failed to prove the critical detail that the bomb was actually placed on that specific motorcycle. The explosion happened near Bh...
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