After a 17-year-long trial, Sadhvi Pragya has been acquitted in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. The court ruled that there was no evidence linking her to the bike used in the blast. Her story includes years of alleged custodial torture.
Representing Lt Col Purohit, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi stated that his client was falsely accused in the case while he was merely discharging his duty.
Jalees Ansari, a medical doctor by profession, has been associated in over 50 bomb blast cases since the 1990s. He was one of the terrorists who had undergone training in Pakistan in the early 90s.