A particular NIA court docket right here on Tuesday granted exemption from common look to BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur within the Malegaon blast case of 2008.
Thakur, who is among the seven accused within the case being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), appeared earlier than the court docket on Monday.
On Tuesday, Special Judge P R Sitre granted exemption to Thakur after her lawyer J P Mishra filed a written software, citing the MP’s issue in travelling right here frequently resulting from well being and safety issues.
“Thakur has multiple illnesses and is undergoing treatment at AIIMS. Even while she was in Mumbai (yesterday), she had undergone some tests at Kokilaben Hospital where doctors told her she was having multiple complications and needed to be treated by a team of doctors,” the lawyer stated within the software.
Mishra additional stated that Thakur, the BJP MP from Bhopal, has “threat to her life” and therefore, Madhya Pradesh Police have offered six armed personnel for her safety.
Besides them, two private aides accompany her wherever she goes. It may be very troublesome for her to journey with all these safety personnel, he added.
The different causes cited by Thakur embody that she, being the member of Parliament, has accountability in the direction of the individuals of her constituency.
Special public prosecutor Avinash Rasal stated decide Sitre thought of Thakur’s plea and exempted her from common look, and requested her to stay current within the court docket as and when required.
Earlier, after failing to stay current within the court docket a number of occasions, Thakur appeared earlier than the decide on Monday.
On December 19, 2020, decide Sitre had given “last chance” to Thakur to seem earlier than the court docket.
He had expressed displeasure over her failure to seem earlier than the court docket twice final month.
Thakur earlier appeared within the court docket in June 2019 after it ordered the seven accused to stay current as soon as per week.
However, she had sought exemption from look on numerous events since then.
The different six accused within the case are Lt Col Prasad Purohit, Sameer Kulkarni, Ramesh Upadhyay, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Ajay Rahirkar and Sudhakar Dwivedi.
The trial within the case got here to a halt in March final yr following the lockdown imposed throughout the nation because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, the particular NIA court docket resumed the trial.
So far, round 140 witnesses out of the overall 400 have been examined.
On September 29, 2008, six individuals had been killed and over 100 others injured when an explosive machine strapped on a bike went-off close to a mosque in Malegaon, a city about 200 km from Mumbai in north Maharashtra.
The court docket framed terror expenses towards Purohit, Thakur and 5 different accused in October 2018.
The accused within the case have been charged below Sections 16 (committing terrorist act) and 18 (conspiring to commit terrorist act) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
They have additionally been charged below Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 120 (b) (legal conspiracy), 302 (homicide), 307 (try to homicide), 324 (voluntarily inflicting damage) and 153 (a) (selling enmity between two spiritual teams), and pragya thakurrelevant provisions of the Explosive Substances Act.
