Malegaon blast case: After framing of charges against Lt Col Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya and others, list of witnesses and other documents submitted in NIA court

In Malegaon blast case, list of witnesses and other documents have been submitted to the Special NIA Court in Mumbai today.

Earlier, the court had framed terror charges against the accused Lt Col. Prasad Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and others involved in the case. The seven accused in the case are namely Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit, Pragya Singh Thakur, Major (retd) Ramesh Upadhyay, Sameer Kulkarni, Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi and Sudhakar Chaturvedi and all of them had pleaded not guilty after the framing of charges by the NIA court.

The court had then set the next hearing for the matter on November 2. Today, a list of 286 witnesses, 102 panch witnesses and 216 documents were submitted before the Special NIA Court in Mumbai.

The next hearing in the matter is fixed by the court on November 12.

Responding to the questions by Press, Pragya Singh Thakur had said, “Earlier, the NIA had given me a clean chit. Now, charges have been framed against me. This was a conspiracy by Congress but I am confident that I will come out innocent as the truth always wins.”

Six people were killed and over 100 injured when an explosive device strapped on a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon, a town about 200 km from Mumbai in north Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008.

The charges pressed on the accused were UAPA’s section 18 and 16, IPC section 12B, 302, 307, 324, 326, 427, 153A; out of these the section 302- amounting to murder, 120B criminal conspiracy and 307 for attempting to murder have been imposed.

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