Decision of Malegaon Blast postponed till July 31: NIA’s Special Court asked Mumbai High Court, Sadhvi Pragya Bolin – Satyamev Jayate – Bhopal News

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Earlier on Thursday morning, all the accused and the victims, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh, reached the court on Thursday morning. The main accused in the case is Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, former MP from Bhopal. Apart from Sadhvi, there are a total of 12 accused, including Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, who are accused of terrorist conspiracy, murder, spreading religious frenzy.

There was a blast in Malegaon on 29 September 2008. In this, 6 people were killed and 101 were injured. The case was initially investigated by Maharashtra ATS. In 2011, the case was handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

The NIA had given a clean chit to the accused in the case, including Pragya Singh, but the court said that the accused would have to face the trial. In April 2025, the NIA, while taking a U-turn, filed a petition in Mumbai’s Special Court, saying that the accused is wrong to consider them innocent, they should be punished severely.

Pragya Thakur was arrested in 2008 in the Malegaon bomb blast case.

Sadhvi said- My faith in Satyamev Jayate Outside the court, Pragya Thakur said- today the decision was to be done, it is not. The judge gave the date. There will be a decision on the next date, it is certain. The judge said that it has more than one lakh pages. It is a big case. It takes time. There should be no injustice to anyone. Everyone should get justice. The next date is given 31 July. Everyone should be present in it.

Thakur said- I have full faith in Satyamev Jayate. The person who is accused either knows or God knows. On the question of the demand for capital pledge from the government side, Pragya said- if I wanted ATS, my mundi would have twisted the same day. He has so much enmity. Don’t know why? I am his enemy for heretics and will always be. Those who are anti -national … I am the traitors of the country, I am an enemy.

Pragya Thakur’s lawyer said- On July 31, it will be known how the accused were implicated.

Lawyer said- On 31 July, you will know how to implicate Sadhvi Pragya Singh’s lawyer JP Mishra said- On April 19, the case was close to the argument. The court today asked only all the accused to appear. Everyone attended. Didi (Pragya) was also present. Now the judgment will come on 31 July.

Whether there is any evidence or not, the one who prosecuts, says punish everyone. We say, leave everyone. The court decides whether to leave or decorate on the basis of evidence. He did not say anywhere to give a capital punishment. Hang, not anywhere. If the judgment comes on 31 July, the world will know who is innocent and how the accused were implicated.

Mishra said- The case took 17 years, we are not responsible for this, prosecution is responsible. False MCOCA. The Supreme Court canceled MCOCA. It took 8 years. People were kept in jail for nine years. It was the bullying of the ATS of that time, otherwise it does not take so much time.

Out of 323 witnesses, 32 changed statements The National Investigation Agency had requested the court not to make any kind of softening with the accused. However, 32 of 323 witnesses withdrew their statements during the hearing.

15 thousand people on the spot after the blast, stones on police Police reached the spot immediately after the blast. 15 thousand people were present there. All were angry due to the blast. He opposed the police and started throwing stones. Many vehicles were damaged in the attack while many policemen were hurt. The police started investigating the bomb blast after the crowd calmed down. FSL Nashik’s team connected to the blast 5 important points are known …

• RDX was used in the blast.
• The explosive device was placed under the bike seat, causing explosion in the fuel tank of the bike.
• The presence of ball bearings and small threaded cast iron pieces indicated that they were used as an explosive device.
• Carefully inspecting the treated cast iron pieces showed that the explosive was placed inside the pipe.
• The explosive device was triggered by remote mechanism or set a timer on the printed circuit board device. Which was not found after the explosion.

The bike was registered in the name of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur During investigation, it was found that the bike in which explosive was blasted is in the name of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. On October 23, 2008, 22 days after the incident, Sadhvi Pragyasinh from Mumbai was arrested along with two other accused Shivnarayan Kalsangra and Shyam Sahu.

After this, it was also known about Sandeep Dange and Praveen Mutalik. Ramchandra Kalsangra, Sandeep, Praveen planted it by putting an explosive device in the bike. After this, the police arrested 11 accused one by one, in which Sadhvi Pragya Singh was considered the main accused.

Maharashtra ATS entry in case On 26 October 2008, the blast investigation was handed over to Maharashtra Anti Tater Squad (ATS). Mumbai’s ACP and Chief Investigation Officer Mohan Kulkarni conducted an initial investigation. He also added sections of Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) in the case.

Planning from January, Execution in September According to the ATS, members of the organization had held several meetings in Faridabad, Kolkata, Bhopal, Indore, Nashik before the blast. In this, everyone’s responsibility was fixed to meet the target. After investigating this entire case, the ATS submitted its report. In this, the entire conspiracy of the blast was said to be a series. According to ATS-

• Accused Colonel Prasad Purohit started Abhinav Bharat Sangathan in 2007. He was associated with military intelligence. Its purpose was to build a Hindu nation with a separate constitution.
• Colonel Purohit was accompanied by co -accused Ramesh Upadhyay, Swami Eddie Tirath, Sameer Kulkarni, Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and other accused and some witnesses of Abhinav Bharat Sangathan.
• A meeting was held in Faridabad on 25-26 January 2008, in which accused Colonel Prasad Purohit, Ramesh Upadhyay, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sameer Kulkarni, Sudhakar Chaturvedi were present.
• Accused Colonel Purohit took the responsibility of providing explosive while Sudhakar Chaturvedi took the responsibility of providing two people who would blast at some place. Till then it was not decided where the blast was to be done?

It was decided to blast in Malegaon at Bhopal meeting

• 11-12 April: A meeting took place in Bhopal, in which the accused conspired to take revenge against Muslims by blasting a bomb in a crowded area in Malegaon. Accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh took the responsibility of providing a person for the blast.
• 11 June 2008: A meeting was held at the Circuit House in Indore, in which Sadhvi Pragya Singh introduced Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange to Sudhakar Dwivedi. Said- Both of them are ready to support.
• July 2008: Another meeting took place in Indore, in which Sadhvi Pragya asked Sudhakar Dwivedi to provide explosives Ramji Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange in Pune.
• 3 August 2008: The secret meeting took place in the Dharamshala of Mahakaleshwar Temple Ujjain, in which Colonel Purohit was given the responsibility of buying RDX for Ramji Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange. Accused Ajay Rahilkar was also in this meeting.

Ramchandra Kalsangra (on the left) and Sandeep Dange (right side) have not been detected till date.

Fund arrangement for blast

• Accused Colonel Purohit also collected a fund of Rs 21 lakh in the name of the organization. The fund was given to the accused Ajay Rahairkar who was the trageer of the Abhinav Bharat Trust.
• In July 2008, the accused Ajay took 10 lakh rupees in the name of the trust. Out of this, he gave 5 lakh rupees to Sudhakar Dwivedi in Indore on 1 August 2008.
• At the same time, Colonel Purohit had kept 10 lakh rupees to buy handgrenade.
• In July-August 2008, accused Colonel Purohit gave two and a half lakh rupees to accused Ajay to buy a bungalow to a builder for himself in Nashik.

RDX Purohit bought, bomb made at Chaturvedi’s house

• According to the ATS, the accused Prasad Purohit brought RDX used in the blast from Kashmir and kept it in his house cupboard.
• The ATS found RDX marks in the house of Sudhakar Chaturvedi, accused in Devalali Camp Nashik. According to the ATS, the bomb was built in the house of accused Sudhakar Chaturvedi.

ATS recovered weapons from the houses of the accused

• Accused Ajay Rahirkar had given Rs 3 lakh 20 thousand to Rakesh Dharde to buy weapons at the behest of accused Colonel Prasad Purohit.
• After the blast, on 2 November 2008, 4 imported weapons and 196 live cartridges were seized from the accused Rakesh.
• On 3 November 2008, 2 imported weapons and 15 live cartridges were seized from the accused Jagdish Mhatre.
• Accused Colonel Purohit gave an arms in Bhopal to Alok alias Jaideep at the behest of Sudhakar Dwivedi. In return, 80 thousand rupees were deposited in the Colonel’s account.
• Two electric timers were seized from the accused Shivnarayan Kalsangra. Which was given to him by his brother Ramchandra Kalsangra.
• Audio-videos were found from the seized laptop of accused Sudhakar Dwivedi, which were of separate meetings held in Faridabad, Ujjain, Bhopal.
• The mobile details of the accused also revealed that all the accused were in touch with each other.

In 2016, NIA gave clean chit to 6 accused including Pragya After five years of investigation, the NIA presented the final report on 13 May 2016. In this, allegations were framed against 10 accused, while 6 accused were given a clean chit.

Difference in charge sheet of ATS and NIA ATS: The accused Ramchandra Kalsangra’s brother Shivnarayan and friend Shyam Sahu were arrested by the ATS. The ATS reported two timer seized from Shivnarayan’s house in Indore. Shyam had said to provide SIM to Ramchandra Kalsangra.

NIA report: Both accused Shivnarayan and Shyam had no investment in the case.

ATS: The accused Jagdish Mhatre was described as an accused in various sections including MCOCA. Two fire arms and 15 live cartridges were found from him.

NIA report: The Arms Act accused about Mhatre and said that he did not prove any participation in the blast.

ATS: The accused priest brought RDX from Jammu and Kashmir. Purohit had kept some parts of RDX recovered during the posting.

NIA report: After questioning the army, it was found that there is a complete account of 70 kg RDX seized while Purohit.

Witness said – ATS forcibly took statement at gunpoint Statements of 323 witnesses were recorded in the case trial, but the main witnesses of the case overturned from their statements. So far, 34 witnesses have overturned during the hearing. A witness who had talked about meeting Colonel Purohit later said that he does not recognize the accused Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit. He does not remember what he had earlier said to the investigating agencies?

He also said that he was in danger of life, so under pressure, he had first confessed to meeting Colonel Purohit. His statements were recorded at the tip of the gun. At the same time, another witness who said in a statement to the ATS said that he had seen the absconding accused (Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange) meeting Sadhvi Pragya Thakur on many occasions. He also overturned from his statement.

Mother who loses son, said, justice will be available in lieu of life 6 people died in this blast and more than 100 people were injured. In the six people who died, 19 -year -old Syed Azhar Nisar was also there. On September 29, he went to offer Namaz at the mosque. After the Namaz was over, he came out to drink tea and stood close to the same bike in which there was a blast.

Nisar’s mother Mehzabi says that on the day the blast occurred, all the people were going towards my house. Nobody was telling me anything. I was upset. Everyone’s children had come, but my son did not return. After some time his uncle came, he said that my son became lovely to Allah. On hearing this, the ground slipped under my feet.

Two days later, when the son’s body was brought home, he saw him. There were marks of shrapnel on his face. The back of the back was completely flown. Those who had picked up the son after the accident, said that only meat was seen. There was no part of the body other than the face.

Input Credit- Vinod Yadav/Shankar Tiger, Mumbai/Malegaon, Daily Bhaskar