2006 blast case: Nanded courtroom calls prosecution’s proof ‘completely untrustworthy’, finds no terror hyperlinks | Mumbai Information

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and subsequently the CBI had booked the lads for a blast which befell at a residence in Nanded on April 6, 2006, inflicting two deaths. The prosecution had claimed that the lads had hyperlinks with RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal, and the accused, together with the 2 who died, have been concerned in assembling a bomb in preparation of conducting explosions to create rift between communities. The accused had claimed that it was an incident of negligence in storing firecrackers which led to the explosion and never a bomb blast.

The courtroom questioned the prosecution declare {that a} reside bomb was recovered from a rexine bag on the spot, since regardless of the hearth as a result of explosion and the water used to douse the hearth, the bag was neither burnt nor moist, when it was recovered by officers.

“…there was restoration of bins of fireplace crackers from the spot and FIR was additionally depicting the explosion attributable to negligent storage of fireplace crackers. All these features are unfavourable to the prosecution’s model about bomb explosion and restoration of reside bombs from the spot,” the classes courtroom stated in its order handed on January 4 and made obtainable on Wednesday. Whereas it was claimed that steel splinters have been discovered within the our bodies of the 2 dead-Himanshu Panse and Naresh Rajkondwar, the courtroom stated that there was nothing to show that the splinters recovered have been from a bomb.

The courtroom additionally pointed to different discrepancies within the probe, noting that every one eight unbiased witnesses, who have been to have been current throughout recoveries linked to the accused, had not supported the prosecution’s case. It stated that the proof of the prosecution witnesses, which included police officers, was ‘completely untrustworthy’. The chargesheet claimed that the accused have been linked with ‘Hindu extremist organisations’. “However, there may be completely no doc tendered by the prosecution to determine that any of the stated organisations have been notified as ‘terrorist organisations’ by the central authorities on the related time. Subsequently, mere restoration of the literature, diaries, communications referring to any of such organisations can’t be construed as a part of conspiracy…” extra classes decide C V Marathe stated.

This was amongst three circumstances the place the ATS had named members of Hindutva teams for explosions between 2004 and 2006, together with one in Jalna and one other in Parbhani. The accused in these two circumstances too have been acquitted earlier, in 2013 and 2018, respectively.

In 2022, a former RSS employee, Yashwant Shinde, had approached the Nanded courtroom on this case, searching for to be examined as a witness, claiming that three males, together with a senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief, have been essential conspirators within the case, and stated that he had attended a coaching camp in Pune. The courtroom, nevertheless, rejected the plea questioning why he had not made an try and method the investigating company up to now 16 years. His enchantment in opposition to this order is pending within the Bombay Excessive Court docket. The Nanded courtroom in its order stated that since there was no keep on the trial, it handed the ultimate judgment.