Malegaon probe: BJP to petition EC on ATS role

The BJP has announced that it will petition Election Commission on Congress using ATS for vote bank politics. The judicial remand of eight of the ten accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, in the Malegaon blast case has been extended till November 29.

The BJP on Monday announced that it would petition Election Commission on Congress using ATS for vote bank politics.

Meanwhile, the judicial remand of eight of the ten accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, in the Malegaon blast case has been extended till November 29 as a court in Nasik rejected the Gujarat police’s plea for interrogation of nine of them.

The ATS, which produced the eight arrested persons in the case before the jam-packed court of Additional Judge H K Ganatra, sought extension of their judicial remand stating that investigations are on.

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Sadhvi Pragya’s lawyer filed an application before the court alleging the ATS had ill treated her besides torturing his client. Another accused in the case, Major (retd) Ramesh Upadhyay told the court that he was not allowed to send letters, seeking legal help, to his family members in Pune.

Upadhyay said he was not being allowed to communicate with his family which was against the “principle of natural justice”.

He also accused the ATS of not providing him certain facilities, applicable under the jail rules.