Bombay High Court hears plea by Malegaon accused
The Hindu
NIA may reduce number of witnesses.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that it will consider reducing the number of witnesses in the 2008 Malegaon blasts trial. Six persons were killed and more than a 100 injured in a series of bomb blasts in Malegaon in Nashik district of Maharashtra. The counsel for the agency, Sandesh Patil, informed a Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.J. Jamadar that originally there were 491 witnesses in the case, out of which 188 had been examined. The court was hearing a petition filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, who is an accused in the case, challenging the sanction granted to prosecute him. He filed the plea under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (prosecution of judges and public servants), and said as an Army officer he was discharging his official duty by gathering intelligence.
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