India, Nov. 14 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to serve notices to two persons accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case while hearing an appeal filed by families of the victims against their acquittal. The two accused - Mahant Amritanand alias Dayanand Pandey and Sudhakar Omkarnath Chaturvedi - were acquitted by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on July 31 alongside five other accused in the case.

A bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Gautam A Ankhad directed the ATS to serve notices to the duo after the authorities told the court that they could not serve notices earlier due to incomplete addresses.

Noting that both the accused were already ou...