The 2008 Malegaon blast killed six people; the court accepted 95 injured. After ATS and NIA investigations and a 17-year trial, a special NIA court acquitted a…
A bomb on a motorcycle exploded near a mosque during Ramzan. Six people were killed. The court accepted 95 injured, against the prosecution's 101.
The ATS arrested Pragya Singh Thakur and three others on 23 October and Lt Col Purohit in November. Both were acquitted in 2025.
The ATS said right-wing extremists carried out the blast. The court later found this not proved.
The special court dropped MCOCA in 2009. The High Court restored it in 2010. The Supreme Court sent it back in 2015.
A central agency replaced the state ATS. Arrests reached 14 by December 2012.
The NIA changed the ATS case. A change of position is not proof of bad faith, and no court has said so.
Bail is not an acquittal; it lets an accused leave custody during trial. Purohit had spent nearly nine years in custody.
Thakur, Purohit, Upadhyay, Kulkarni, Rahirkar, Dwivedi and Chaturvedi. The trial began on 3 December 2018.
37 of 323 turned hostile. Eight defence witnesses were later examined.
The court found no cogent and reliable evidence. Reports cite the motorcycle, defective sanctions and forensic problems. It accepted the blast and six deaths.
Relatives of six victims appealed. Notices went to the seven, the NIA and the state. We found no ruling as of 3 November 2026.
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