The Bombay High Court on Monday order the re-imposition of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act – MCOCA against all the eleven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. <br/><br/>Last year, the special MCOCA court had ordered that MCOCA would not apply to the accused since there was no proof of them being a part of an organized crime syndicate. <br/><br/>The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad – ATS and the state government had challenged this order in the Bombay High Court. In today’s ruling, Justice B H Marlapalle and Justice Anoop Mohta said that the application of MCOCA by the prosecution was justified.<br/><br/>The trial in the case can now resume before a Special MCOCA court in Mumbai. The accused, currently lodged in Nasik Central Prison, would be brought to a Mumbai jail to stand the trial. The prime accused in this case; include Sadhvi Pragya Singh, Dayanand Pandey and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit.<br/><br/>Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in Nasik district of North Maharashtra, bringing into focus some right-wing Hindu groups.