By way of PTI
MUMBAI: Noting that prosecution witnesses within the 2008 Malegaon blast case are turning adversarial, Maharashtra House Minister Dilip Walse-Patil on Saturday mentioned the legal professionals of the state ATS would attend the continued trial prior to the particular NIA courtroom.
The case were to begin with investigated by way of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad prior to the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) took it over.
“Just lately some witnesses have became adversarial we will be able to have our legal professionals provide within the courtroom all through the listening to any more,” Walse-Patil instructed newshounds.
The Further Leader Secretary (House) would keep up a correspondence with the central company in this, he added.
Previous this week, state Congress operating president and previous Minister of State for House Naseem Khan had met further director normal of police Vineet Agarwal who heads the ATS over the problem.
In a memorandum to the ATS, Khan demanded that ATS legal professionals be provide within the NIA courtroom right here all through the trial.
The accused within the case come with Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP MP from Bhopal who’s out on bail.
To this point, 16 out of 223 witnesses who deposed have became adversarial, accusing the ATS of torturing and forcing them to present false statements, Khan had mentioned within the memo, including that to protect the state and ATS’ symbol, its legal professionals will have to be provide within the courtroom.
Six folks have been killed and over 100 injured when an explosive tool strapped to a motorbike went off close to a mosque in Malegaon, a communally delicate the town in north Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008.
