Mumbai, July 30 -- Seventeen years after two bombs concealed in motorcycles exploded near a mosque in a Muslim-majority area during the fasting month of Ramzan in Malegaon, in Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008, killing six people and injuring 101 others, a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai is likely to deliver its verdict on Thursday, July 31, 2025.

Initially, some Muslim youths were arrested in the case after which the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) said that it uncovered evidence pointing to Hindutva extremist groups.

On 20 January 2009, Mumbai ATS filed a chargesheet in the Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court, Mumbai.

The accused included a former BJP MP from 2019 to 2024 Pra...