an encouraging report has come from Mumbai suggesting that National Investigation Agency (NIA) has concluded that the nine Muslim youths who were arrested and jailed in 2006 in connection with the Malegaon blasts are ‘innocent’.
These nine ‘innocent’ men are in prison for more than five year.
At the meet Dr Singh asked the investigating agencies to be free from biases and prejudices of any kind in their probe.
An NDTV report quoting NIA sources said that the agency has finally concluded that the nine Muslim men who were arrested and jailed in 2006 in connection with the Malegaon blasts are innocent.
These men are in jail and were accused of carrying out the twin blasts as part of a plot by the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
The report said that NIA would now not oppose their bail pleas when they come up in court. Thirty one people were killed and 312 were injured in the 2006 blasts.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) too has taken U turn and submitted an internal report to the NIA saying only the right-wing Hindutva group activists arrested last year should be probed for the blast.
In 2009, the CBI went by the Maharashtra ATS line and chargesheeted the nine Muslim youths. The agency retracted in 2010, when Swami Aseemanand confessed that the blasts were the handiwork of a Hindutva group.
The revelation is significant for Muslim as for the first time an investigation agency has internally confirmed that the initial Malegaon arrests were wrong and is going to act to set the error right and prepare grounds to discharge them.
