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Two months after the Supreme Court rejected her bail plea, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, has once again sought bail on “grounds of parity”, her lawyer said in Mumbai on Friday. Three other co-accused in the same case – Shivnarayan Kalsangra, Shyam Sahu and Ajay Rahirkar – were granted bail by the Bombay High Court in August.
She has moved a Mumbai Special Court seeking bail. “Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has filed a regular bail plea and discussed the merits and demerits in the chargesheet filed against her,” said her lawyer Ganesh Sovani.
Special Judge YD Shinde of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court has kept the matter for hearing Dec 5 and asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file its reply in the matter, Sovani said.
A total of 12 people were nabbed by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) following the Sep 29, 2008 blast that killed six and injured scores of people in the Muslim-dominated Malegaon town in Nashik district.
Subsequent ATS investigations pointed to the involvement of Hindu extremist groups in the incident.
In her latest bail plea, the Sadhvi has contended that no ‘specific role’ has been attributed in the terror case nor anything ‘incriminating’ has been recovered from her.
She added that from Oct 10-22, 2008, she was interrogated by the ATS only on the point of her formerly-owned LML Freedom scooter, which she had sold in 2004 to one Sunil Joshi.
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