Maharashtra Govt Challenges Revocation of MCOCA in Malegaon Case
Challenging revocation of the provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in the September 2008 Malegaon blasts case, the Maharashtra Government has filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court.
Hearing the case, the court deferred the matter to September 8 after issuing instructions to the state to serve a copy of the appeal to all the 11 arrested in the case.
It may be mentioned that a special MCOCA court had on July 31 had observed that accused are not part of an organised crime syndicate and so dropped all charges of MCOCA from the case.
The state in its appeal before the High Court had said that the order of the special court was “unconstitutional and bad in law”.
The ATS had arrested 11 persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit for allegedly carrying out blasts at Malegaon in September last year that killed six people and injured several others.
