The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the state government and investigating agencies to produce court orders of the Malegaon blasts, 7/11 train blasts in the city and the German Bakery blasts in Pune.
A division bench of Justices Abhay Oka and PD Naik was hearing petitions on a pattern in which Muslims are falsely implicated and later acquitted in blasts cases, especially mentioning the acquittal of the accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts, train blasts in the city in the same year and 2010 Pune blast.
Special Public Prosecutor Raja Thakare said the government is in the process of filing an appeal against the acquittal of lone German Bakery blasts convict Mirza Himayat Baig by the HC.
In May 2013, journalist Ashish Khetan had written a letter petition to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court stating the “deliberate framing of Muslims in terror cases by the Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra”. It also states that “the ATS has deliberately created bogus evidence, extracted false confessions and implicated innocent Muslim youth”.
