The special National Investigation Agency court, on Wednesday, rejected a plea to ban Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case and the Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha candidate from contesting the upcoming election, citing that it is for the electoral officers to take
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Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the 2008 Malegaon blast prime accused, joined the BJP. She will be pitted against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency. Thakur is currently out on bail in the case, which saw over 40 killed.
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The Supreme Court put a stay on Delhi high court’s order asking the Associated Journals Limited, the publishers of the National Herald newspaper, to evict the Herald House building in New Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. The court has also issued a notice to the Centre.
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While filing the fourth supplementary chargesheet in the kickback case in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, the ED told a Delhi court that “kickbacks were paid to defence officials, bureaucrats, journalists and important political persons of the ruling party.”
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The National Investigation Agency special judge, Jagdeep Singh, who delivered the verdict on the Samjhuata Express blast case, remarked that a “malaise has set in the investigating agencies”, which identify terror attacks by the perpetrator’s religion.
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The special cell of Delhi police arrested a man, who was a “close aide” of the mastermind behind the February 14 Pulwama attack, from near Lajpat Nagar market.
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A special NIA court in Haryana’s Panchkula acquitted all the four accused, including Aseemanand, in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, in which 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, were killed. The BJP termed the verdict as “historic”.
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The CBI also added that during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, the attacks on the Sikhs were “spearheaded by dominant political actors, like Sajjan Kumar, and duly facilitated by law enforcement agencies.”
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The court was expected to give its verdict on Monday, but the pronouncement was deferred after filing of Rahila Wakil’s sudden application in the case, in which she claimed that no proper summonses were sent to the 13 Pakistani witnesses.
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According to reports quoting government sources, the UN decision to continue banning the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind, Hafiz Saeed, came after India provided detailed evidence and highly confidential information.
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