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A Special NIA Court in Mumbai has acquitted all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, observing that the prosecution failed to prove any of the charges beyond reasonable doubt. Special Judge A.K. Lahoti observed, “I am of the considered view that the prosecution has failed to adduce cogent, reliable, and legally acceptable evidence….
Sheikh and Khan’s stories are not exceptional. India’s criminal justice system currently has more than 434,302 undertrial prisoners—women and men who have yet to be convicted of any crime but await their trials inside prison. As of 2022, this figure represented 75.8 per cent of the total prison population of 573,220, according to the Prison Statistics…
A Mumbai court on Thursday acquitted all seven accused, including Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur in the Malegaon blast case of 2008, which claimed six lives and left scores injured. Special Judge AK Lahoti extended the benefit of doubt to all the accused on the grounds that the prosecution…