CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: An additional sessions judge’s court in Nanded on Saturday acquitted nine accused of the 2006 bomb blast at a house in Patbandhare Nagar in Nanded that killed two people and left four injured.
Two of the total 12 accused in the case died in the explosion that occurred during the night of April 4 and 5, 2006, at the house of Laxman Rajkondwar, and another died during the course of the trial that began in 2012.
“The remaining nine were acquitted by the supplementary court, Justice CV Marathe,” said defense lawyer Nitin Runwal.
The court issued the operative part of the order and it is expected that the full text of the ruling and order will be published in due course. “The prosecution failed to prove that the incident was a ‘bomb explosion’ and not the explosion of a gas cylinder or some other flammable object,” Runwal said.
The case was investigated by the Nanded police and the Maharashtra ATS before being transferred to CBI, which had filed the chargesheet.
The investigating agency’s claim was that the explosion occurred during the process of assembling an explosive device.
“It was claimed that a live bomb was recovered from the spot and later defused and some cartridges were also found at the spot,” Runwal said.
A total of 49 witnesses were examined in support of the prosecution.
Another defense lawyer, RJ Paralkar, told TOI: “The prosecution’s case was that on the night of the incident, an assistant police inspector who was on patrol heard a loud noise coming from the house in Patbandhare Nagar and rushed there. He found two people: Naresh Rajkondwar and Himanshu. Panse was killed and others were injured. An FIR was registered by the Bhagyanagar police, which suspected it to be a bomb blast case. The case was later transferred to the. State ATS and then to the CBI.
Paralkar, who was assisted by lawyer Aarti Baheti in the case, said: “Of the 10 accused who faced trial, Rahul Pande died during the course of the trial. Pande underwent a drug trafficking test and three others “Defendants had brain mapping performed and lied.” detector test during the investigation of the case.”
Paralkar said, “There was inconsistency in the prosecution theory and the court appears to have confirmed the same by acquitting all the nine accused.