Malegaon blast suspects booked under tough law

TOUGH LAW TO CRACK: Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's motorbike was allegedly used in blast.

ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news, watch videos
be a Citizen Journalist. Log on to m.ibnlive.com NOW!

Related Stories

Top Headlines

Top Videos

Most Popular

• Politicians play coy; avoid debate on gay sex 

• Serena wins Wimbledon women's singles title | Match in pics 

• Speeding bus falls on Howrah rail tracks, 10 dead 

• Heavy rains throw Mumbai out of gear 

• 6 sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel held in Delhi: cops 

• New swine flu case takes India's tally to 129 

• Goodbye to Mumbai slums, child star moves into flat 

• Cops accused of killing man to win medals | Watch 

• Maid insists Shiney raped her: women's panel chief 

• Exhume bodies of Shopian women in Kashmir: High Court 

• Railways fail to provide basic facilities to passengers 

• Budget on Campus: Young India's expectations from FM 

• Speeding bus falls on Howrah rail tracks, 10 dead 

• Politicians play coy; avoid debate on gay sex 

• Watch: Cops shoot man to win medals 

• MJ to be buried in style in a 14-carat casket 

• Surviving The City: Moving ahead despite Necrosis 

• Politicians play coy; avoid debate on gay sex 

• Axe the Tax: CNN-IBN takes public tax complaints to FM 

• CJ appeals for help to find missing daughter 

• Second nursing student alleges Andhra MLA raped her 

• Maid insists Shiney raped her: women's panel chief 

• CM helpless, admits Maoists extort Rs 300 cr annually 

• Bus falls on rail tracks in Kolkata, 8 killed 

• Cops accused of killing man to win medals 

• Exhume bodies of Shopian women in Kashmir: High Court 

• Goodbye to Mumbai slums, child star moves into flat 

• Politicians play coy; avoid debate on gay sex 

• 10 years of Kargil, heroes recall the war 

• Serena wins Wimbledon women's singles title 

Photogallery

Find us on Facebook | Join IBNLive community

Stay ahead with G-Talk Buddy | Click now!

Mumbai: All the 10 accused in the Malegaon blast case have been booked under a stringent law, which allows the police not file charges against suspects for up to 180 days.

The blast on September 29, which killed five people in the communally sensitive textile town, was planned by an organised crime group, said the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra Police on Thursday.

The accused, two of whom are Hindu seers and one an Army officer, will therefore be booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

Under MCOCA, the ATS will get six months to file a chargesheet against the accused, as compared to 90 days under other laws.

ATS chief Hemant Karkare said probe into the blast is about to be completed and it is not politically influenced. "There is no political pressure in the investigations into the Malegaon blast," he said.

The video was taken on April 12, 2008, in Bhopal at a function organised by Kulkarni and the group president Himani Savarkar, a relative of the late Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, known as Veer Savarkar.

(With inputs from IANS and PTI)