Malegaon blast: Nine Muslims may be released?
A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court is likely to hear the bail plea of nine Muslims, accused of being involved in the 2006 Malegaon blasts, on Friday.
The Anti-Terror squad and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed their replies on the blast.
The CBI has also opposed the bail plea of the nine accused, who are allegedly members of banned terrorist outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
Meanwhile, according to media reports, there are high chances that the nine accused will be granted bail, especially after Swami Aseemanand, the main accused of 2007 Samjhauta Express blast, confessed that it was not Muslim youths, but Hindu extremists who were behind several blasts in the country, including in the Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Sharif and Mecca Masjid.
The Left parties have reportedly written to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram seeking release of the Muslim youths, who are in jail since the last four years.
Assemanand had said it?s not Muslims, but Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ?pracharaks? (activists), who planned and executed the bomb blasts at Malegaon in 2006 and 2008, on the Samjhauta Express in 2007, in Ajmer Sharif in 2007 and Mecca Masjid in 2007.
The confessions, purportedly to a magistrate at a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court, were published by the Tehelka magazine.
The Malegaon bombings took place on 8 September 2006 in Malegaon, a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra.The explosions, which killed at least 37 people and injured over 125 more, took place in a Muslim cemetery, adjacent to a mosque.
