Source: huffingtonpost<\/p>\n
The Bombay High Court today issued notices to eight persons who were discharged earlier this year from the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case, seeking response to a petition filed by the Maharashtra government against their discharge.<\/p>\n
The state has moved the high court in appeal against the order of sessions court discharging the eight accused, all Muslims.<\/p>\n
In April, the sessions court here discharged these men of all terror charges after the National Investigation Agency submitted that the blasts were the handiwork of a Hindu extremist group.<\/p>\n
The state government, however, urged the high court to set aside the order.<\/p>\n
The division bench of justices RV More and Shalini Phansalkar Joshi issued notices to the eight persons and sought their replies in four weeks.<\/p>\n
In its appeal, the government said the sessions court’s order was illegal and unjust, and was contrary to the evidence on record.<\/p>\n
The state claimed the trial court’s conclusion that Muslims would not plant bombs inside a mosque was wrong and had no legal basis.<\/p>\n
The serial bomb blasts outside a cemetery near Hamidia mosque at Malegaon, near Nashik, on September 8, 2006, claimed 37 lives and injured over 100 people.<\/p>\n