All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi expressed his disappointment over the Malegaon blast case verdict in which all the seven accused involved in the case were acquitted by the Mumbai NIA special court today.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday questioned whether news of Malegaon blast case accused being acquitted came on Thursday to suppress the news of US announcement of 25 percent tariffs on India.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Kishan on Thursday reacted strongly to the acquittal of all accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, criticising the Congress for what he described as the politically motivated use of the term "Bhagwa Terrorism" and demanding accountability in Parliament.
Earlier on Thursday, Mumbai's Special NIA court acquitted all seven accused of being involved in the 2008 Malegaon blasts, with the court saying that the prosecution failed to establish the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
"Bhagwa was defamed by them through a conspiracy, today Bhagwa has won and Hindutva Has won and those who are guilty will be punished by God. But those who defamed India and Bhagwa both are not proved wrong by you. I thank you sir (to Judge Abhay Lohati)," Pragya said, weeping after the v
"It is sad that we were waiting for the judgement for 17 years. But this is not the victim's fault that the acquittal happened; they just suffered. The victims had come from Malegaon to show their wounds, the court gave the benefit of the doubt because the agency had failed, the ATS and g
A total of 7 people were accused, including former MP Sadhvi Pragya, Major (retired) Ramesh Upadhyay, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhankar Dhar Dwivedi (Shankaracharya) and Sameer Kulkarni.
The NIA court is set to announce its verdict after a 17-year-long blast case which killed 6 people and injured 101 others, with the statements of more than 300 people already examined. The case has had transfer of multiple judges through the years, after the National Investigation Agency
In a breakthrough in a decades-old terror case, Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal addressed the media at the DGP office, announcing the arrest of a suspect in the 1995 Coimbatore blast case after nearly 29 years of evading the law and highlighted that soon Tamil Nadu
Acting on specific and credible intelligence, the accused was arrested by a special team from the Anti-Terrorism Squad and Coimbatore City Police in the Vijayapura district of Karnataka.
"In a late-night development, Gaowal SK, one of the key accused in the Kaliganj bomb blast case, was arrested by the Police. With this, the total number of arrests in the case has reached nine, out of the 24 individuals named in the FIR," the West Bengal police said in an official statement.