2008 Malegaon blast: Victims move HC against acquittal of Pragya Thakur, 6 others

Six family members who died in the explosion of 2008 Malegaon bombs, moving the Supreme Court of Bombay, former BJP deputy Prague Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Col. He challenged a special court decision that seized the defendants in the case, including Prasad Purohit.

On Monday, September 8, 2025, the appeal opened by Nisar Ahmed Sayyed Bilal and five other people through Mateen Shaikh, defender, called HC to suppress the special court decision.

A explosive device connected to the motorcycle, on September 29, 2008, came out near a mosque in the town of Malegaon, which was about 200 km away from Mumbai in the Nashik region of Maharashtra, killed six people and injured 101 people.

The petitions claimed that the order given by the Special NIA Court on July 31 was that seven defendants were wrong and bad and therefore deserved the deterioration.

In the judiciary, the Special Court said that only suspicion could not replace the real evidence and that there was no KOGENT or reliable evidence to guarantee conviction.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court, the Special Judge Ak Lahoti, said that there was no “reliable and conent evidence önemli who proves the case against the defendants beyond reasonable suspicion.

The prosecution case was realized by the right -wing supporters of the explosion with the intention of terrorizing the Muslim community in the socially sensitive Malgaon town.

The NIA court had marked several gaps in the case of prosecution and conducted an investigation and said the defendants deserve the benefit of suspicion.

Mrs. Thakur and Lieutenant Col. In addition to Purohit, the defendant Major Ramesh Upadhyay (retired), Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and Samer Kulkarni.