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Dear Editor I Disagree: Malegaon bombing, Mumbai train blast probes were very different failures by the state

August 14, 2025 12:17 pm

Blatant disparities raise serious questions about the fairness, consistency, and accountability of our criminal justice system; questions that the system must answer.

‘Investigation in the train blast case is a sad comment on how little policing has changed since 1872’

August 18, 2025 12:05 pm

Sadaf Modak speaks with advocates Yug Chaudhry and Payoshi Roy, who represented the accused in the train blasts case, about procedures and safeguards in terror probes.

Malegaon blast case detailed judgment: Court raises doubts over Purohit’s defence that he had joined Abhinav Bharat to collect intelligence

August 02, 2025 9:53 pm

The court noted that after Lt Col Prasad Purohit's arrest, no steps were taken by the Army to 'protect their officer' and said that if 'he would have really discharged the duty under the colour of his office, there would have been protection to him'.

The prosecution, therefore, sought that they be allowed to refer to photocopies of the missing documents since the originals were not available.

2008 Malegaon blast case: The unsolved mystery of the missing documents

August 03, 2025 11:29 am

The special NIA court said no proof was brought to show that photocopies of missing documents can be used after 13 crucial statements went untraceable in 2016.

Malegaon blast case acquittals expose a deep-rooted bias in Congress

August 02, 2025 3:13 pm

Judgment in the 2008 case is damning, not for the accused but for the political ecosystem that manipulated agencies, planted narratives, and criminalised identities

No evidence on Pragya Singh Thakur’s claims of torture by ATS officials: Court

August 02, 2025 12:25 am

The court also took into consideration testimonies of witnesses, some of whom claimed that they had been threatened and tortured

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Court acquits 2008 Malegaon blast accused: Forensic expert’s ‘guesswork’ on bomb kept inside motorcycle’s boot cannot be relied: Court

August 01, 2025 10:15 pm

The witness was the Assistant Chemical analyser in the Directorate Forensic Science Laboratory (DFSL), Nashik, in 2008 and had reached the spot with his analysis kit for forensic analysis.

Train blasts, Malegaon: Two attacks, multiple investigations, and how the cases fell

August 01, 2025 12:17 pm

The September 2008 Malegaon blasts had left six people dead and over a hundred injured. All the seven accused, including former BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, were acquitted by the court Thursday.

Lt Col Prasad Purohit, a member of Abhinav Bharat, was one of the seven who were acquitted on Thursday in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case.

Founded by Savarkar, revived by Godse’s niece: Abhinav Bharat ‘vindicated’, hails Malegaon acquittals

August 01, 2025 8:56 am

Originally founded in 1904 by the Hindutva ideologue to take on the British, the outfit was dissolved in 1954 and revived by his brother’s daughter-in-law Himani, the daughter of Gopal Godse, in 2006

Today in Politics: What the Malegaon verdict means politically

August 01, 2025 9:05 am

Even as the government dealt with the attacks, statements by several Congress leaders in their wake landed the UPA government in a sticky situation.

2008 MALEGAON BLAST CASE VIDEOS

2008 Malegaon blasts: Lt Col Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur charged with terror conspiracy murder

June 22, 2020 6:12 pm

A special NIA court charged all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case with terror conspiracy, murder and other related offences. This includes Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.