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BJP Lok Sabha MP from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Pragya Singh Thakur will not be able to attend court this weekend citing health conditions. Thakur is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, REPORTS India Today.
Pragya Singh Thakur and the other accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case had been ordered to be physically present during the hearings by the trial court.
PR Sintre, a new judge will be presiding over the special NIA court which is hearing the matter. The trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case began earlier this month following a prolonged delay owing to the pandemic. The court had decided to summon witnesses in this regard.
At the beginning of December, the special NIA court had ordered all of the seven accused to be physically present in the court.
However, only three showed up while Pragya Singh Thakur, Ramesh Upadhayay, Sudhakar Diwedi and Sudhakar Chaturvedi were not present inside the court, said the report.
Lawyers of the four accused had cited Covid-19 restrictions regarding interstate travel as the reason behind their absence.
The special NIA court then decided to summon all of the accused again on December 19.
However, just before coming to Mumbai, Pragya Singh Thakur was in Delhi for her medical checkup where doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) asked her to get admitted.