Mumbai: Lt. Colonel Shrikant Purohit walked out of jail this morning after nine years behind bars as an accused in the Malegaon blast case. He will join the Army unit in Pune where he was posted before his arrest in 2008. Purohit left prison two days after the Supreme Court gave him bail. He was…
2008 Malegaon Blast Case: Supreme Court grants bail to Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit
August 21, 2017New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) today granted bail to Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on Sept.29, 2008, in Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in the Nasik district of Northern Maharashtra. The National Investigating Agency (NIA) had opposed his bail during…
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