PIL seeks action against ATS,IPS officers for ‘framing’ 9

A Kandivali-based businessman has filed a criminal PIL in Bombay High Court seeking action against senior IPS officers including former Maharashtra ATS chief K P Raguvanshi for the alleged false implication of nine Muslim men in the Malegaon blast case of 2006,after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed its chargesheet in May naming four accused from Indore as perpetrators.

Sayyad Ameen Mustafa (30),in his PIL has stated that the ATS which had arrested the nine Muslim men following four explosions in Malegaon on September 8,2006,had,until December 2010,opposed the grant of bail or discharge to the nine and violated their fundamental rights. In November,2011,however,a special MCOCA court released them on bail. In the PIL filed through lawyer Ejaz Naqvi,Mustafa has asked the court to go through the chargesheets filed by the ATS in 2006,by the CBI in 2011 and the latest by the NIA.

The PIL says NIA chargesheet names four Hindu men from Indore as being those responsible for the blasts. Mustafa has stated that Lt Col Prasad Purohit,arrested in the Malegaon bomb blasts of 2008,has admitted his role in the conspiracy behind the 2006 blasts.

The PIL urged the court to order a departmental inquiry against 16 police officers — officers attached to the ATS in 2006 including Raghuvanshi,Subodh Jaiswal,Jagjeet Singh,Kisan Shengal,Naval Bajaj,S D Baviskar,retired DGP P S Pasricha,Malegaon SP Rajvardhan,SP (Thane Rural) Archana Tyagi,DCPs Amitabh Gupta,Dhananjay Kamlakar and Niket Kaushik and Deputy SP CBI Raman Tyagi. Mustafa demanded that the officers be asked to raise funds to compensate the nine accused. He asked that the accused be granted emotional support and their rehabilitation be ensured.