Malegaon blast: Bombay High Court rejects Lt Col Prasad Purohit’s plea for discharge from case
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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected an attraction filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit looking for discharge within the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Purohit and 6 others, together with BJP MP Prgaya Singh Thakur, are going through trial within the case of the blast that killed six folks and left greater than 100 injured in September 2008. All the accused are at present out on bail.
Among different grounds for looking for discharge, Purohit had claimed lack of sanction beneath related provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prosecute him.
However, a bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Prakash Naik rejected his plea, saying the sanction was not wanted as “he was not on official duty”.
On September 29, 2008, six folks had been killed and greater than 100 injured when an explosive machine strapped to a motorbike went off close to a mosque in Malegaon, a communally delicate city in Maharashtra’s Nashik district.
According to the Maharashtra Police that carried out an preliminary probe into the case, the motorcycle to which the explosive was strapped was registered in Pragya Thakur’s title, which led to her arrest.
The National Investigation Agency later took over the probe into the case.
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected an attraction filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit looking for discharge within the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Purohit and 6 others, together with BJP MP Prgaya Singh Thakur, are going through trial within the case of the blast that killed six folks and left greater than 100 injured in September 2008. All the accused are at present out on bail.
Among different grounds for looking for discharge, Purohit had claimed lack of sanction beneath related provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prosecute him.
However, a bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Prakash Naik rejected his plea, saying the sanction was not wanted as “he was not on official duty”.
On September 29, 2008, six folks had been killed and greater than 100 injured when an explosive machine strapped to a motorbike went off close to a mosque in Malegaon, a communally delicate city in Maharashtra’s Nashik district.
According to the Maharashtra Police that carried out an preliminary probe into the case, the motorcycle to which the explosive was strapped was registered in Pragya Thakur’s title, which led to her arrest.
The National Investigation Agency later took over the probe into the case.
