11 Years Later, Mecca Masjid Blast Averted: Court Accepts Accused
6 years, 8 months ago

11 Years Later, Mecca Masjid Blast Averted: Court Accepts Accused

Live Law  

Eleven years after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) ripped through the heritage Mecca Masjid near Charminar in Hyderabad (now in Telangana) claiming nine lives and injuring 58 persons and with the probe being handed from local police to CBI to NIA, a special court on Monday acquitted Godman Swami Aseemanand and four others accused in the case.

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2008 Malegaon blast case: Special NIA court starts final hearing
5 months, 2 weeks ago

2008 Malegaon blast case: Special NIA court starts final hearing

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: A special National Investigating Agency court on Thursday commenced the final hearing in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, in which former BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and former army officers Ramesh Upadhyay and Prasad Shrikant Purohit are among the prime accused. The Anti-Terrorism Squad, which took over the investigation in October 2008, suspected the role of Hindu extremists …

2008 Malegaon bomb blast case: NIA court pulls up Purohit
6 months, 3 weeks ago

2008 Malegaon bomb blast case: NIA court pulls up Purohit

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: In a recent development of the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, a special NIA court reprimanded accused Prasad Purohit for attempting to reexamine a witness already presented by the prosecution. Despite his request to examine nine witnesses, Special Judge AK Lahoti granted permission for only five, with Purohit bearing the expenses. Purohit’s counsel aimed to establish the legality of …

2008 Malegaon blast: NIA court issues warrant against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur
9 months, 4 weeks ago

2008 Malegaon blast: NIA court issues warrant against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: A special NIA court on Monday issued a bailable warrant for arresting BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, a prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast, which killed six people and injured 101 persons. BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur Read here: NIA gets court nod to attach property of 2008 Malegaon blast accused Kalsangra During the hearing, Thakur’s lawyer …

Malegaon blast: NIA court starts recording statements of BJP MP Pragya Thakur, six others
1 year, 3 months ago

Malegaon blast: NIA court starts recording statements of BJP MP Pragya Thakur, six others

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The special NIA court on Tuesday began recording the statements of BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and six others, who are facing trial in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, seeking their explanation on the evidence produced by the prosecution against them. During the hearing, Thakur, who was asked to sit in the witness box, was seen …

Malegaon bomb blast case: NIA court says it will pass orders on prosecuting ATS officer at the time of final verdict
1 year, 5 months ago

Malegaon bomb blast case: NIA court says it will pass orders on prosecuting ATS officer at the time of final verdict

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: A special NIA court on Wednesday disposed of a plea filed by some of the accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case seeking to initiate prosecution against a former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad officer for allegedly planting evidence. It is not the allegations of ATS or NIA that the said officer was also involved in the alleged meeting and …

2008 Malegaon blast: One more witness turns hostile
2 years, 4 months ago

2008 Malegaon blast: One more witness turns hostile

Hindustan Times  

The special court hearing the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case declared one more witness hostile on Tuesday. One of the accused Sudhakar Chaturvedi had stayed in the witness’ house in Lucknow between March 2006 and June 2007. On September 29, 2008, a powerful bomb exploded outside a religious shrine in which six persons were killed and about 100 others were …

Bombay HC to keep tabs on 2008 Malegaon blast trial
2 years, 5 months ago

Bombay HC to keep tabs on 2008 Malegaon blast trial

India Today  

The Bombay High Court has directed the special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai to submit a fortnightly report on the progress of the trial in the Malegaon 2008 blast case. The special NIA court in Mumbai where the Malegaon 2008 blast trial is going on, deals with only this one case and no other case is ever given to …

2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case: Gujarat special court convicts 49 accused, acquits 28 others
2 years, 11 months ago

2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case: Gujarat special court convicts 49 accused, acquits 28 others

India TV News  

Highlights The blasts had claimed 56 lives and nearly 80 accused were put on trial The court had concluded the trial in the more than 13-year-old case in September last year Senior public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt said the verdict is likely to be pronounced on Tuesday A special court in Gujarat on Tuesday pronounced its judgement in the case related …

2008 Malegaon blast: 2 ATS officers attend trial, leave after accused Pragya Thakur objects
2 years, 11 months ago

2008 Malegaon blast: 2 ATS officers attend trial, leave after accused Pragya Thakur objects

India Today  

As 16 witnesses turned hostile in the 2008 Malegaon blast trial, a worried Maharashtra government had asked Anti-Terrorism Squad officers to attend the court where the trial is being held. However, the moment two ATS officers entered the court, advocates representing accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, BJP Member of Parliament from Bhopal, objected to their presence. ATS officers Mohan Kulkarni …

Trial in Ahmedabad Serial Blast Case Concludes After 13 Years; Court Reserves Verdict
3 years, 4 months ago

Trial in Ahmedabad Serial Blast Case Concludes After 13 Years; Court Reserves Verdict

News 18  

Thirteen years after 56 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, a special court here has concluded the trial against 77 accused, while reserving its verdict in the matter. The prosecution examined over 1,100 witnesses in the lengthy trial, which began in December 2009, over a year after a series of bomb blasts rocked the …

Babri Masjid demolition case: A timeline of events
4 years, 3 months ago

Babri Masjid demolition case: A timeline of events

Live Mint  

A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Lucknow is set to deliver its verdict in the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid criminal case today. Following is the chronology of events from the present, leading back to the demolition of Ayodhya-Babri Masjid: September 2020: CBI special court in Lucknow reserved the order to be pronounced on 30 September. September 2010: Allahabad HC upholds …

Samjahuta Blast: Appeal Filed Against Acquittal Of Aseemanand, 3 Others
5 years, 5 months ago

Samjahuta Blast: Appeal Filed Against Acquittal Of Aseemanand, 3 Others

Live Law  

Pakistan national Rahila Vakil, who claimed that her father was one of those killed in the Samjhauta Express blast in 2007, filed a plea before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, challenging the acquittal of Swami Aseemanand and three others in the case. Vakil filed the appeal before the high court through her counsel Momin Malik. "The appeal was filed …

Samjhauta Express blast: Swami Aseemanand and three other accused acquitted by NIA court
5 years, 9 months ago

Samjhauta Express blast: Swami Aseemanand and three other accused acquitted by NIA court

Op India  

The Special National Investigation Agency court in Panchkula acquitted four accused in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case which had claimed the lives of around 68 people. Samjhauta Blast Case: All four accused -Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan and Rajinder Chaudhary have been acquitted by Special NIA Court in Panchkula pic.twitter.com/9urDpWm87r — ANI March 20, 2019 The Special NIA court …

Why NIA Court Today Deferred Verdict In Samjhauta Express Blast Case Involving Swami Aseemanand?
5 years, 9 months ago

Why NIA Court Today Deferred Verdict In Samjhauta Express Blast Case Involving Swami Aseemanand?

Live Law  

A special NIA court had to defer its verdict that was expected to be pronounced on Monday in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case in which Swami Aseemanand is one of the accused after a last-minute application by a Pakistani woman. In a surprise plea, the woman moved the anti-terror court for directions for examination of the blast eyewitnesses from …

Samjhauta Express blast case: 12 years after incident, special NIA court likely to pronounce verdict today
5 years, 9 months ago

Samjhauta Express blast case: 12 years after incident, special NIA court likely to pronounce verdict today

India TV News  

The verdict in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case is likely to be pronounced by a special National Investigation Agency court in Panchkula on Monday. Samjhauta Express, that connects India and Pakistan was jolted by a blast on February 18, 2007, in which 68 people had lost their lives. Earlier in June 2011, the NIA had filed a chargesheet in …

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