The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Court here will hear the complainant in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case before deciding on the closure report filed by the NIA, which clears senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Indresh Kumar, key accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and two others of all charges.
Special Judge Dinesh Gupta said on Monday that he would first hear the complainant, Syed Sarwar Chishti, a khadim (worker) in the dargah, on whose statement the First Information Report (FIR) was registered in the case. The court will then decide whether the closure report is to be accepted or rejected.
In its supplementary closure report filed on April 3, the NIA stated that it had not found any role of the four accusedin carrying out the blasts at the shrine of Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
Though the NIA had earlier claimed that Mr. Kumar had asked activists to work secretly in a meeting, it later submitted it had not found any evidence against him. Pragya Thakur, in her capacity as a member of extremist outfit Abhinav Bharat, was also earlier accused of having links with the conspiracy to carry out the blast.
