New Delhi: Four people have been named in the 2008 Malegaon blast chargesheet filed in a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai on Wednesday. The four accused named in the chargesheet are Rajender Chaudhary, Dhan Singh, Manohar Narwaria and Ramji Kalsangra, who is still absconding.
But the chargesheet does not name Swami Aseemanand, Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit or any other Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh functionary.
While the investigators say that the four accused had linked with the RSS, the saffron organisation has not been named in the blast case even though sources did not rule out filing a supplementary chargesheet.
The chargesheet is a major embarassment for the Maharashtra anti-terror squad as its investigation into the 2008 Malegaon blasts had implicated eight Muslims, which has now been set aside by the NIA. The fresh chargesheet holds former RSS members responsible for the blasts....
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03:15 PM, May 22, 2013
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a key accused in the 2008 Malegoan blast case, on Monday filed an application before the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court seeking temporary bail to perform last rites of her father. ...
10:01 PM, Mar 04, 2013
As the new BJP President Rajnath Singh slammed Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his remarks on terror, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh hit back at him asking why he met Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya in jail. "Rajnath Singh ji must first answer why he went to meet Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya in jail ," Digvijaya Singh said. ...
03:59 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Mumbai: Mother of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, said on Tuesday that her daughter had been "falsely implicated" and was "innocent". "My daughter cannot even kill a worm and this is not what is taught to her. She cannot not commit any such act," Sarla Devi, who came to meet her daughter at the women's jail in Byculla in Mumbai, told reporters....
05:36 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Mumbai: Praveen Mutalik, an absconding accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, has been arrested from Karnataka by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). Mutalik, one of the three accused still evading arrest in the case, was picked up on Monday night, ATS sources said on Tuesday. He was produced before a special MCOCA court which remanded him to police custody till February 14, sources said, adding two others - Ramji...
06:07 PM, Feb 01, 2011
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said a "terrorist is a terrorist". ...
09:10 PM, Aug 01, 2009
Court also orders that the trial will be heard in a regular Nashik court. ...
11:38 PM, Jul 31, 2009
The MCOCA court will debate the chargesheet on Thursday. ...
09:58 AM, Jan 22, 2009
Eleven people accused of having planned and executed Malegaon blasts. ...
03:28 PM, Jan 21, 2009
The three are being questioned by Anti-Terrorism Squad. ...
06:37 PM, Dec 22, 2008
ATS has produced new evidence in the MCOCA court. ...
06:42 PM, Nov 26, 2008
Investigations into the Malegaon blast continue with the ATS indicating that they have key evidence. ...
02:26 AM, Nov 26, 2008
Sadhvi alleges she was forced to watch obscene CD. ...
08:07 PM, Nov 25, 2008
Sources says that five more serving officers of the Army are being probed. ...
09:51 AM, Nov 25, 2008
Army worried about personnel's links to Hindu groups: sources to CNN-IBN. ...
12:12 AM, Nov 25, 2008
Thakur alleged there was no lady officer present during her interrogation. ...
06:55 PM, Nov 24, 2008
CBI Spokesperson Harsh Behl says reports of Togadia being involved are not true. ...
03:39 PM, Nov 24, 2008
ATS had invoked MCOCA against all the suspects in the case. ...
02:02 PM, Nov 24, 2008
The involvement of officers in Malegaon has bruised the Army. ...
12:32 PM, Nov 24, 2008
This may stop Sangh Parivar from supporting the blast accused. ...
08:09 AM, Nov 22, 2008
