This Article is From Oct 01, 2011

Malegaon blasts: Fresh bail application moved by 8 accused

Malegaon blasts: Fresh bail application moved by 8 accused
New Delhi: Eight people accused in the Malegaon blasts case have filed fresh bail applications in a sessions court in Mumbai. Thirty one people were killed and 312 were injured in the 2006 blasts.

The ninth accused, Abrar Ahmed, has turned approver in the case.

The court has asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is currently probing the matter, to file its reply before the next hearing on October 31.

Sources have told NDTV that the investigation agency will not oppose their bail pleas as it has not found any evidence against them.

NDTV has also found that in a U-turn from its previous stand, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted an internal report to the NIA saying only the right-wing Hindutva group activists arrested last year should be probed for the blast. In 2009, the CBI toed the Maharashtra ATS line and chargesheeted the nine Muslim men. The agency retracted in 2010, when Swami Aseemanand confessed that the blasts were the handiwork of Hindutva group.



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