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Three agencies, three failed probes: How the 2006 Malegaon blasts case hit a 'dead end'

April 24, 2026 2:47 am

Courts have systematically flagged gaps in investigations by the ATS, CBI and NIA and 31 victims' families are still waiting for justice

Malegaon terror justice: System that keeps failing

Malegaon terror cases: System that keeps failing

April 23, 2026 11:37 pm

The conversation around the Malegaon cases was tainted by politics, religion, and the politics of religion from the very beginning. There is no excuse for the lapses from what are meant to be apolitical instruments of the law

The men who vanished: Seven accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts have never been found

The men who vanished: 7 accused in 2006 Malegaon blasts case were never found

April 23, 2026 7:08 pm

Named in two separate investigations years apart, they include a Pakistani national, an electrical contractor from Indore, and residents of Malegaon itself, all wanted, none traced, as the case closes around them with no convictions.

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‘A dead end’, ‘contradictory versions’: Why Bombay High Court discharged last 4 accused in 2006 Malegaon blasts case

April 23, 2026 9:37 am

The Bombay High Court quashed charges in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case, citing contradictions between ATS and NIA probes and a lack of credible evidence.

'How did my son die if nobody planned the blasts?': 19 years on, Malegaon victims are still waiting for justice

April 23, 2026 9:56 am

From a visa that arrived two days after his son was killed, to a High Court order that leaves no one facing trial, Shafique Ahmed has watched every hope of justice slip away, one acquittal at a time.

The blast spot at Mushawarat chowk at Malegoan on September 8, 2006. (Express Archives)

2006 Malegaon blast case: Bombay High Court quashes charges against all 4 accused

April 23, 2026 2:51 am

With the original nine accused discharged, subject to appeal pending before HC, and the replacement four now cleared, the 2006 Malegaon blast case, technically, has no accused left standing nearly two decades after the attack.

"The Special Judge ought to have appreciated that faulty investigation and some defects in investigation cannot be a ground for acquitting the accused persons. Procedural lapses by police officers while collecting electronic evidence should not have been dismissed in this fashion in the case of terrorist activities," the appeal reads.

Malegaon blast: victims’ kin move Bombay HC against acquittal of Pragya Thakur, Col Purohit and 5 others

September 09, 2025 5:33 pm

Six people were killed and over 100 injured on September 29, 2008, when an explosive device went off near a mosque at Malegaon in Maharashtra's Nashik district.

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Malegaon blast acquittals: 'Army has always supported me,' says Lt Col Purohit; Major Ramesh Upadhyay (retd) thanks Bal Thackeray

August 01, 2025 3:25 am

Among the acquitted Malegaon blast accused are two people with Army backgrounds–Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, a serving Army officer, and Major Ramesh Upadhyay (retired).

Malegaon order: BJP seeks Congress apology for 'tainting' Pragya Thakur image

August 01, 2025 2:57 am

BJP also raises 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter killing, alleges Amit Shah, then a minister in Gujarat, implicated based on testimony of “two sold-out witnesses”.