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Malegaon Blast Case: NIA court slams ATS over flawed probe, coerced confessions

Mid-Day Saturday, 2 August 2025 ()
Court tears into ATS for shoddy investigation, fake links, and forced confessions in Malegaon case; Key forensic procedures were also ignored — DNA samples were never collected from the blast site, and the area wasn’t barricaded until one hour and forty five minutes after the incident
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News video: Pragya Thakur, 6 Others Walk Free in Malegaon Blast Case—After Shah's ‘No Hindu...Terrorist' Remark

Pragya Thakur, 6 Others Walk Free in Malegaon Blast Case—After Shah's ‘No Hindu...Terrorist' Remark 03:34

 Seventeen years after the deadly 2008 Malegaon blast rocked Maharashtra, a special NIA court in Mumbai has acquitted all seven accused — including BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit — citing lack of concrete evidence. The judgment came just one day after Union Home Minister Amit...

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