By PTI
MUMBAI: An Army officer having a household relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, an accused within the 2008 Malegaon blast case, turned the twenty fifth witness to show hostile in the course of the trial right here on Thursday.
Six individuals have been killed and 90 injured when an explosive machine strapped to a bike went off close to a mosque in Malegaon, a north Maharashtra city, on September 29, 2008.
The Army officer recorded his testimony earlier than Special Judge A Ok Lahoti on Thursday and acknowledged Purohit, who was current within the courtroom.
He additional testified that the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had made inquiries with him in reference to the case, however had by no means recorded his assertion, after which the courtroom declared him hostile.
A witness offered by the probe company is asserted hostile when she or he doesn’t assist the prosecution’s case within the courtroom.
As per the file, the ATS had recorded his three-page assertion, the place he had claimed he had seen paperwork associated to Abhinav Bharat outfit at Purohit’s home.
In the assertion, the Army officer had additionally claimed to have dropped Purohit and one other former Army officer on the web site of the camp held for Abhinav Bharat in October 2008 in Panchgani.
Apart from Purohit, the opposite accused within the case embrace BJP Lok Sabha MP Pragya Singh Thakur, Shudakar Diwedi, Major Ramesh Upadhyay (Retired), Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and Sameer Kulkarni, all of whom are out on bail.
MUMBAI: An Army officer having a household relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, an accused within the 2008 Malegaon blast case, turned the twenty fifth witness to show hostile in the course of the trial right here on Thursday.
Six individuals have been killed and 90 injured when an explosive machine strapped to a bike went off close to a mosque in Malegaon, a north Maharashtra city, on September 29, 2008.
The Army officer recorded his testimony earlier than Special Judge A Ok Lahoti on Thursday and acknowledged Purohit, who was current within the courtroom.
He additional testified that the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had made inquiries with him in reference to the case, however had by no means recorded his assertion, after which the courtroom declared him hostile.
A witness offered by the probe company is asserted hostile when she or he doesn’t assist the prosecution’s case within the courtroom.
As per the file, the ATS had recorded his three-page assertion, the place he had claimed he had seen paperwork associated to Abhinav Bharat outfit at Purohit’s home.
In the assertion, the Army officer had additionally claimed to have dropped Purohit and one other former Army officer on the web site of the camp held for Abhinav Bharat in October 2008 in Panchgani.
Apart from Purohit, the opposite accused within the case embrace BJP Lok Sabha MP Pragya Singh Thakur, Shudakar Diwedi, Major Ramesh Upadhyay (Retired), Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and Sameer Kulkarni, all of whom are out on bail.
