11-18-2008, 02:05 AM
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Fresh questions have surfaced on the Malegaon blast probe with Mumbai ATS failing to produce any new evidence before a local court at Nashik on Monday even as it backtracked on its earlier stance that Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit had used pilfered RDX to blow up Samjhauta Express in February 2007.
The jampacked court of Additional Judge HK Ganatra saw ATS facing serious charges of torturing Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and blocking proper legal aid to another accused (retired) Major Ramesh Upadhyaya.
Not able to produce even a single piece of legally tenable evidence against the eight accused, the ATS is now virtually groping in the dark and the cases were on the verge of collapsing. The ATS credibility has suffered a major setback since it had claimed that Purhoit might have used âpilferedâ 60kg RDX for his terror acts across the country, including Samjhauta Express blasts. In fact, this was one of the prime contentions put forward by the ATS counsel before the court on Saturday while seeking to extend the remand of Srikant Purohit.
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Did they checked head of ATS links with Dawood terrorist gang and ISI?
Fresh questions have surfaced on the Malegaon blast probe with Mumbai ATS failing to produce any new evidence before a local court at Nashik on Monday even as it backtracked on its earlier stance that Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit had used pilfered RDX to blow up Samjhauta Express in February 2007.
The jampacked court of Additional Judge HK Ganatra saw ATS facing serious charges of torturing Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and blocking proper legal aid to another accused (retired) Major Ramesh Upadhyaya.
Not able to produce even a single piece of legally tenable evidence against the eight accused, the ATS is now virtually groping in the dark and the cases were on the verge of collapsing. The ATS credibility has suffered a major setback since it had claimed that Purhoit might have used âpilferedâ 60kg RDX for his terror acts across the country, including Samjhauta Express blasts. In fact, this was one of the prime contentions put forward by the ATS counsel before the court on Saturday while seeking to extend the remand of Srikant Purohit.
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Did they checked head of ATS links with Dawood terrorist gang and ISI?