Pragya Thakur exempted from a court appearance in Malegaon blast case

A special court here has allowed an exemption to the 2008 Malegaon blast case blamed Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit, and Sudhakar Chaturvedi from showing up before it this week.

At the point when the issue was taken up by the special NIA court on Monday, the three charged documented applications through their lawyers looking for an exemption from appearance.

While Thakur and Chaturvedi said they are occupied with arrangements for the forthcoming results of the Lok Sabha polls, which they had challenged, Purohit referred to individual troubles. The court permitted the applications.

The court likewise permitted an application recorded by lawyers of the charged people to visit the blast site in Malegaon, a town around 200 kilometers from here in Maharashtra's Nashik region.

A week ago, the special NIA court, which is leading a preliminary against seven charged in the case, had guided every one of them to show up before it in any event once per week. It at that point said an exemption would be conceded if relevant reasons were submitted.

Thakur, the BJP chose one from Bhopal Lok Sabha situate, said in her application that as a competitor, she would need to satisfy certain methodology of the Election Commission, including assigning her operators for the including of votes in her voting demographics on May 23.

Chaturvedi, who battled the election as an Independent from Mirzapur situate in Uttar Pradesh, referred to a similar reason.

As of now, the court is recording the declaration of observers in the case.

Other than these three, the other denounced in the case are Major (resigned) Ramesh Upadhyay, Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi and Sameer Kulkarni. They are the full scale on safeguard.

Six individuals were executed and more than 100 harmed on September 29, 2008, when a touchy gadget lashed to a bike went off close to a mosque in Malegaon.