After a 17-year-long wait, the Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai announced its verdict today in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. 

Former BJP MP Pragya Thakur was today acquitted of all charges in the 2008 Malegaon blast case after a Mumbai court said there is no evidence to establish that the bike, allegedly used in the blast that claimed six lives, belonged to her.

Nearly 17 years after a powerful bomb tore through Maharashtra’s Malegaon, killing six people and injuring more than a hundred, a special court in Mumbai today acquitted all seven accused in the case.