Sadhvi Pragya Bail Petition in SC Today
Facing charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for alleged involvement in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has moved the Supreme Court for bail.
A bench comprising Justices JM Panchal and Gyan Sudha Mishra will hear the petition on Monday.
Pragya’s counsel Sushil Balwada, who has filed the petition challenging the denial of bail by the Bombay High Court, said he will seek adjournment of the matter for two weeks.
The High Court had rejected her bail plea on March 12.
He said Thakur will also file a petition against the July 19 decision of the High Court restoring the charges under MCOCA.
The High Court had ordered that Pragya and ten other accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case will face trial under MCOCA and had quashed the decision of the Special Court which had dropped the charges under the special law.
The trial is scheduled to take place at a special MCOCA court while the accused are currently lodged in Nasik Central Prison.
Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in Nasik district of North Maharashtra.
