New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorities on Thursday slammed the CBI for putting "innocents in jail over serious crimes as terror acts". NCM chief Wajahat Habibullah called it dangerous and said that the police and investigating agencies should take utmost care while dealing with such cases.
Habibullah's remarks came in response to a question about National Investigation Agency (NIA) filing a charge sheet in Mumbai on Wednesday against four people suspected to be members of right-wing groups and not proceeding agsinst nine Muslim youths arrested by the Mumbai police and CBI.
Mumbai Police's elite ATS and CBI earlier had filed a charge sheet against nine Muslim youths and charged them with triggering explosive devices on September 8, 2006 at Malegaon, a communally sensitive area 290 km from Mumbai. The youths, who were behind bars for five years, were released after NIA did not oppose their bail pleas.
"This should not have happened as this can be dangerous. Also that this is an indicator that actual terrorists are still out," Habibullah told PTI. He said youths being falsely implicated in such terror cases left a deep scar on their lives. "I mean people desist in giving them jobs or marrying their sisters, daughters...How fair is this?" he said....
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06:06 PM, May 23, 2013
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...
03:15 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the chief accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case has been admitted to hospital after she suffered a paralytic attack. Earlier this year, the NIA had opposed granting Thakur bail for health reasons. Sadhvi Pragya is an accused in the September 2008 blast that killed six people and injured several in Malegaon. Earlier in September 2011, the Supreme Court had rejected her bail plea. She...
06:40 PM, Apr 10, 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
A day after two terror suspects in Bangalore were let off by a court after spending six months in jail, the issue of wrongful arrests on terror charges was raised in Parliament. The Left parties have criticised the police, with Basudeb Acharia referring to the Malegaon blasts arrests. ...
03:43 PM, Feb 26, 2013
National Investigation Agency, probing the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case, oon Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that it was opposing the bail plea of prime accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who has sought the relief on medical ground. ...
06:51 PM, Feb 05, 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
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit out at the UPA government for Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remark that the BJP and its ally, the RSS, were promoting Hindu terrorism through their training camps. The BJP demanded that UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demand an unconditional apology and also the resignation of Shinde. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The BJP, the RSS and the Congress are yet again involved in a war of words, this time over Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remarks that the training camps run by them were promoting Hindu terrorism. At the last day of the Congress's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Shinde took to stage and while talking about the security situation in the country, flayed the BJP and the RSS for what "promoting...
02:42 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday alleged that the training camps run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were promoting Hindu terrorism. He also alleged that the RSS and the BJP were behind the Samjhauta Express, Meccca Masjid and Malegaon blasts. ...
02:03 PM, Jan 20, 2013
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday formally arrested key accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, Lokesh Sharma, in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case. Sharma, who is already under judicial custody, was produced before a special court in Mumbai, which remanded him in NIA custody till January 19, police said. ...
07:41 PM, Jan 05, 2013
One of the key accused in 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case, Manohar Singh, has confessed to his role in the conspiracy, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Sunday claimed in a special court in Mumbai. Singh, arrested from Hatod in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, was produced before the special NIA court. ...
05:29 PM, Dec 30, 2012
NIA on Saturday made its first arrest in connection with Maharashtra's 2006 Malegaon bombing after the role of right-wing groups came to the fore with the nabbing of Swami Aseemanand in 2011. ...
06:03 PM, Dec 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday questioned the bail granted to chief accused in the Israel embassy car blast case, Syed Mohammed Kazmi, saying that if he was given bail, why hadn't Sadhvi Pragya Thakur been granted bail yet. RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav Varanasi said, " Justice Kabir, CJI, said Kazmi, accused in the attack on an Israeli diplomat's wife in Delhi has statutory right to bail....
10:33 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant interim bail to Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit and other accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Lt Col Purohit, a Military Intelligence officer had claimed that he had "infiltrated" Hindu radical outfit Abhinav Bharat, did his job properly and also kept his bosses in the loop about the group's activities. The Military Intelligence officer is facing two...
11:34 AM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: A MCOCA court will hear Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail plea in the Malegaon blast case on Monday. She is the key accused in the 2006 Malegaon blast case and has been in custody for the past four years. Pragya had earlier sought bail on health grounds claiming she has third stage breast cancer. This is her fourth attempt for bail. Sadhvi Pragya is an accused in the September...
09:30 AM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Malegaon blast accused Lt Col PS Purohit says he had "infiltrated" the Hindu radical outfit Abhinav Bharat and did his job properly and also kept his bosses in the loop. The Military Intelligence officer is facing two separate trials, one is being handled by the National Investigation Agency(NIA) and the other one is Army's Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the matter. "I infiltrated Abhinav Bharat. I have done...
10:15 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday objected in the Supreme Court to the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief's remarks on the Malegaon blasts when the court was hearing a plea by the case's key accused against the Bombay High Court order that allowed their custodial interrogation. Additional Solicitor General Harin Rawal drew the attention of the apex court bench of Justice HL Dattu and Justice Anil R Dave to the...
04:26 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Panchkula: Kamal Chauhan, a disgruntled RSS worker arrested by the NIA, in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast, on Friday claimed that he does not know another accused Aseemanand facing trial in the same case. Chauhan, who was remanded to NIA custody after being produced in the court here, told reporters outside the court premises that "he knows nothing about Aseemanand." "I don't know Aseemanand," he told reporters while being...
07:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai sessions court will resume its hearing of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail plea on Saturday. Thakur is the prime accused in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case. Thakur who has been denied bail thrice claims she's been falsely implicated in the matter. Sadhvi Pragya has sought bail on the grounds that no 'specific role' in the blast has been attributed to her. In her plea, she also...
06:47 AM, Feb 04, 2012
