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Out on bail, Malegaon terror attack accused Col Purohit gets back uniform

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August 30, 2017

Mumbai, Aug 30: Lt Col Prasad Purohit, one of the accused in 2008 Malegaon saffron terror attack, has got his uniform back. Col Purohit was granted bail by the Supreme Court, last week.

Soon after his release from the Tàloja central jail in Raigad district, he reported to the Colaba Military Station in Mumbai.

Col Purohit, an officer of the Maratha Light Infantry, he was later assigned to Military Intelligence.

His last posting was in Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh. He is currently attached to the Pune-headquartered Southern Command.

Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, in Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in the Nasik district of northern Maharashtra.

The 4,000-page charge sheet had alleged that Malegaon was selected as the blast target because of a sizeable Muslim population there. It had named Pragya Thakur, Purohit and co-accused, Swami Dayanand Pandey as the key conspirators.

It further alleged that it was Pandey who had instructed Purohit to arrange the RDX, while Thakur owned the motorcycle which was used in the blast.

Ajay Rahirkar, another accused, allegedly organised funds for the terror act, while conspiracy meetings were held at the Bhonsala Military School in Nasik, it had said.

Rakesh Dhawde, Ramesh Upadhyay, Shyamlal Sahu, Shivnarain Kalsangra, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Jagdish Mhatre and Sameer Kulkarni were the other accused.

It could be recalled here that within a month of the arrests of Purohit and Thakur, Hemant Karkare, head of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), who had exposed saffron terrorism, was killed under suspicious circumstances during 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. Several saffron extremists had celebrated the death of Karkare.

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Parson M Z
 - 
Thursday, 31 Aug 2017

 This can only happen in India. Only Almighty god can help with truth behind all these terror acts. We public is been fooled from day1 in the name of politics. People who dont know about their religion clearly, they only get into these acts. No religion allows you to degrade any other religion. 

Rathish
 - 
Wednesday, 30 Aug 2017

Target of killing one more karkare !!! 

 

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January 6,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 6: Activist Irom Chanu Sharmila took part in a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) at Sir Puttanna Chetty Town Hall here on Sunday.

Sharmila, who came in the protest along with her child, took part in a 'burqa and bindi' protest marking the birth anniversary of social reformer Savitribai Phule.

Protests have erupted across the country over the CAA which grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist, and Christian refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

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January 16,2020

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April 3,2020

Mysuru/Chamarajanagara, Apr 3: In order to prevent the transmission of Novel Coronavirus though overcrowding, the central jails in Mysuru and Chamarajanagar have begun releasing some of their inmates.

As many as 55 undertrials and convicts were released from Mysuru jail since the last two days, while 18 were released from the prison in Chamarajanagar. The jail inmates had been released on interim bail, for a period of two months.

While the undertrials were facing charges that involved a maximum prison term of seven years, the convicts were facing criminal miscellaneous cases of the family court. Most of the convicts released were prisoners who had not paid the maintenance costs ordered by the family courts in divorce cases.

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