Mumbai: Seven of the nine accused in the Malegaon blast case are likely to be released on Tuesday after being in judicial custody for five years. The MCOCA court has agreed to grant bail to the accused. However, the final report in the case by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is yet to be filed. The accused were arrested for orchestrating blasts in 2006 which claimed 31 lives. All of...
07:45 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Mumbai: The nine people, who were accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case, got bail on Saturday and will finally be walking free after spending five years in prison. Their families, although relieved, want the state to compensate them for the trauma, the stigma of terror and their loss. Father and brother of Noorulhuda, one of the accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case say they have suffered as much...
07:33 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Mumbai: Hours after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a special court in Mumbai that it won't oppose the bail plea of the nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case, the court granted them bail. After the Maharashtra ATS made the nine arrests and filed a chargesheet in 2006, the probe was handed over to the CBI. The NIA took charge of the investigation after the Swami Aseemanand's confession...
09:12 PM, Nov 05, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday did not oppose bail petitions of nine accused who were arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. Nine accused had applied for the bail in October. NIA has told Mumbai court that it would not oppose the bail applications of the accused. The bail applications were filed in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, which is hearing the...
01:12 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday informed a court hearing the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case that it would file additional charge sheet against the nine accused on November 4. NIA also told the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court that it would file its say on the bail petition of the nine accused on the same day. All the accused were on Sunday produced before...
02:50 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The bail hearing of the nine accused in the 2006 serial blasts case in Malegaon will be held in Mumbai on Monday. The bail applications were filed earlier this month in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, which is hearing the case. Maharashtra ATS, which initially probed the case had arrested nine persons namely Salman Farsi, Shabir Ahmed, Noorulhuda Doha, Rais Ahmed, Mohammed Ali, Asif...
10:10 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Mumbai: Nine persons arrested for the bomb blasts in Maharashtra's Malegaon town in 2006 moved a special court seeking bail on Saturday. In the bail application filed before the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court, the accused said the case is now being handled by National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has concluded brain mapping and polygraph tests on them, but did not find anything incriminating. "There is a...
02:07 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who is facing charges for her alleged involvement in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Pleading with the court on her behalf, senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani claimed that she had been subjected to harassment, physical torture and verbal abuse by the anti-terrorist squad. Thakur has been in custody of the ATS since October 2008, and is...
11:10 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Mumbai: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) is unlikely to oppose the bail pleas of the nine accused arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case when they come up for hearing this week. Sources privy to the investigations into the case said on Tuesday the NIA may not oppose the bail pleas of the nine accused hinting they may not have played any role. The bail...
07:03 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Tuesday sought the custody of the Malegaon blasts accused Col Shrikant Purohit and Major Ramesh Upadhyay. The NIA wants to question Purohit among others things on his possible role in the Samjhauta Express blasts. Sources said that the NIA wants to find out whether Col Purohit funded Pragya Thakur and some other RSS activists. Sources also said that the NIA wants to...
11:20 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Mumbai: Notwithstanding Centre's decision to hand over 2008 Malegaon blast probe to NIA, Maharashtra ATS on Thursday filed a charge sheet alleging that Abhinav Bharat activist Praveen Mutalik was the key conspirator in the bombings that left six people dead. Mutalik, who is in his early 30's, was arrested by the ATS on January 31, this year from Gokak town in Belgaum district of Karnataka after evading police for over...
04:32 PM, Apr 21, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra ATS has got "new material and good information" after interrogating Praveen Mutalik and some more arrests are likely in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the chief of the squad said on Monday. "During the interrogation of Mutalik, we have got good information and new material that has been recorded. He told us about the boys who underwent training of bomb making, using of weapons and marshal...
11:01 PM, Mar 07, 2011
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
Mumbai: The CBI, in its reply before a MCOCA court on Friday, opposed the bail plea of the nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. In its reply to Special Judge YD Shinde, the agency said, "In view of Swami Aseemanand's statement, CBI is conducting further investigation after obtaining formal permission of this honourable court. That the accused have not put forward any valid ground for consideration of their...
12:13 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Jaipur: Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad on Saturday took right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat member and Samjhauta Express train blast accused Swami Aseemanand in its custody in connection with the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack case. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ajmer had issued a production warrant against Aseemanand on January 18 and the ATS has now brought him from the custody of National Investigation Agency in Panchkula, Haryana. He was produced before...
04:16 PM, Jan 22, 2011
Mumbai: All nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon blast case have filed for bail before the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai. Taking up their bail petition on Monday, the court asked the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file their replies and fixed the next date of hearing on January 28. Meanwhile, Delhi High Court issued a notice to...
01:27 PM, Jan 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday sought replies from the Union government and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a petition filed by Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's brother Ananth Brahmachari accusing the agency of torturing and illegally detaining him. Issuing notices to the NIA and the Union government, Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra sought their replies by April 6. Pulling up the investigating officer (IO) for...
12:53 PM, Jan 17, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed a letter written by Saumjhauta Blast accused Swami Aseemanand which shows that his confession before the CBI was voluntary. The letter accessed by CNN-IBN was written by Swami Aseemanand to the presidents of India and Pakistan on why he had a change of heart and wanted to confess. swami Aseemanand had given the letter - where he expressed his desire to confess - to his...
07:46 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Mumbai: In a fresh development in the 2006 Malegaon blast probe, a special court on Thursday granted permission to CBI for reinvestigating the case in wake of "confession" statements made by Swami Aseemanand linking Hindu groups to terror acts. CBI has moved the application before a MCOCA court here after the statement made by Swami Aseemanand under section 164 Criminal Procedure Code before a magistrate in which he claimed that...
05:48 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Malegaon: After Swami Aseemanand's confession, there was clamour in Malegaon for the release of the nine local youth arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. The family members of the youth say even if they are released, the scars of being targetted as the accused for years can never be erased. Noorul Huda is one of the accused in Malegaon blast case and was arrested from Malegaon in the 2006....
02:21 PM, Jan 13, 2011
