THE AURANGABAD bench of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom has dismissed a plea by a former RSS employee, who had sought to be examined as a witness within the 2006 Nanded bomb blast case. Final month, a periods court docket in Nanded had cleared all 9 males dealing with trial of all prices within the case.
Yashwant Shinde had approached the periods court docket in 2022 looking for instructions to the CBI to look at him as a witness. Shinde had alleged that he was aware of the blast conspiracy and claimed to have attended a coaching camp in Sinhagad. He additionally claimed to know the principle conspirators of the blast.
The periods court docket in 2023 had rejected Shinde’s plea, questioning the delay in approaching the investigating company for 16 years. Shinde had then filed a writ petition within the excessive court docket in 2023 looking for to be examined as a witness below Part 311 of the Legal Process Code (energy to summon materials witness).
“…throughout the course of investigation, the petitioner (Shinde) has not made any effort to provide his assertion to the Investigating Officer from the day of registration of crime i.e., 06.04.2006 until submitting of the applying i.e., 29.08.2022 which filed after greater than 16 years. Due to this fact, to my thoughts, the current petitioner has no locus to file an software below Part 311 of CrPC to implead himself as a witness,” Justice Y B Khobragade mentioned in an order on February 26, made out there on Monday.
The excessive court docket mentioned that for the reason that periods court docket has acquitted all of the accused, it doesn’t discover advantage in permitting his plea. In January, whereas acquitting the accused, the Nanded court docket had mentioned that the proof was ‘completely untrustworthy’. The CBI had booked the lads over a blast which came about 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, had been concerned in assembling a bomb in preparation of conducting blasts 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.
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