On March 8, National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Jaipur pronounced three people guilty in 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case in which three people had died. Meanwhile, Assemanand and RSS leader Indresh Kumar among four others were acquitted in the case.
The special NIA court was supposed to deliver its verdict on March 11 but said it has deferred the verdict to March 8.
Three persons were killed and at least 15 others injured when the bomb exploded at around 6.15 p.m. on October 11, 2007 inside the premises of dargah of Sufi Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti.
Hearing in this case was completed in the first week of January in which 149 witnesses were examined and 451 documents were produced before the court.
Ajmer blast case: Swami Aseemanand acquitted, three people found guilty pic.twitter.com/weSClKYvqD
— ANI (@ANI_news) March 8, 2017
As per the NIA chargesheet, some fringe Hindu groups were responsible for conducting the blasts and it has accused Swami Aseemanand, Devendra Gupta, Chandrashekhar Leve, Mukesh Vasani, Bharat Mohan Rateshwar, Lokesh Sharma and Harshad Solanki of planting and exploding bombs and murder among other charges.
Swami Aseemanand has been acquitted by NIA court in Ajmer blasts case, Sunil Joshi,Bhavesh and Devendra Gupta convicted pic.twitter.com/UVm2gv0pFh
— ANI (@ANI_news) March 8, 2017
The investigation into the blast which claimed three lives witnessed several twists and turns as the cops first suspected the blast to be a handiwork of banned terror outfit HuJi (Harkat-ul-Jihad) until the forensic evidence and sustained interrogation fetched men-in-khaki startling facts into the blast.
