NEW DELHI: The SC on Monday agreed to listen to Malegaon blast accused Lt Col Shrikant Purohit's plea for quashing his prosecution below the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and sought reaction from the Maharashtra executive and National Investigation Agency (NIA).
A bench of Justices R Ok Agrawal and A M Sapre asked the state executive and NIA to report reply inside of four weeks however grew to become down Purohit's plea for keep at the Bombay HC order which had allowed the trial to head forward.
Purohit approached the apex courtroom, thru his attorney Neela Gokhale, and contended that the HC erred in dismissing his attraction and no correct sanction was once taken to prosecute him below UAPA. The petition stated below the UAPA, the state's legislation and judiciary division has to seek a file from an acceptable authority sooner than granting sanction.
"In this case, the sanction was given in January 2009 but the authority was appointed only in October 2010. Hence the sanction order stands vitiated," he stated in his petition.
Six individuals were killed and just about 100 injured when a bomb strapped to a motorbike exploded in Malegaon in Nashik district of Maharashtra on September 29, 2008. Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Purohit were arrested with nine others for the blast conspiracy.
The NIA, which took over the probe from Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad , gave a clean chit to Sadhvi Pragya.
Purohit, the first serving Army officer to be arrested on an apprehension charge, was once hooked up with army intelligence and internal terrorism (insurgency actions) when he was once arrested through the ATS in connection with the bomb assaults on Muslim targets allegedly carried out through Hindutva radicals to avenge the deaths of Hindus in a wave of jihadi terror assaults.
A bench of Justices R Ok Agrawal and A M Sapre asked the state executive and NIA to report reply inside of four weeks however grew to become down Purohit's plea for keep at the Bombay HC order which had allowed the trial to head forward.
Purohit approached the apex courtroom, thru his attorney Neela Gokhale, and contended that the HC erred in dismissing his attraction and no correct sanction was once taken to prosecute him below UAPA. The petition stated below the UAPA, the state's legislation and judiciary division has to seek a file from an acceptable authority sooner than granting sanction.
"In this case, the sanction was given in January 2009 but the authority was appointed only in October 2010. Hence the sanction order stands vitiated," he stated in his petition.
Six individuals were killed and just about 100 injured when a bomb strapped to a motorbike exploded in Malegaon in Nashik district of Maharashtra on September 29, 2008. Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Purohit were arrested with nine others for the blast conspiracy.
The NIA, which took over the probe from Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad , gave a clean chit to Sadhvi Pragya.
Purohit, the first serving Army officer to be arrested on an apprehension charge, was once hooked up with army intelligence and internal terrorism (insurgency actions) when he was once arrested through the ATS in connection with the bomb assaults on Muslim targets allegedly carried out through Hindutva radicals to avenge the deaths of Hindus in a wave of jihadi terror assaults.
Malegaon case: SC issues notice to NIA on Purohit’s plea
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