Lt Col Purohit dons Army uniform for first time after SC grants him bail
30 Aug 2017 7:24 PM IST
Lt Col Purohit was released from the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai on August 23 after which he had reported to his Army unit.
Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Bombay High Court refusing to quash the cognisance taken by the trial court in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case. (Photo: File | ANI)
Mumbai: Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit on Wednesday donned uniform for the first time after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices RK Agrawal and AM Sapre on August 21 set aside an order of the Bombay High Court which had denied him bail.
He was released from the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai on August 23 after which he had reported to his Army unit.
A team of Military Police and Quick Response Team (QRT) of the Army had taken him to a military station at Colaba in South Mumbai.
Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in Nashik district of north Maharashtra.
( Source : ANI )
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