In a fresh development in the 2006 Malegaon blast probe, a special court on Thursday granted permission to CBI for reinvestigating the case. The move comes in wake of confessions made by Swami Aseemanand linking Hindu groups to terror acts. CBI has moved the application before a MCOCA court in Mumbai after the statement made by Swami Aseemanand under section164 Criminal Procedure Code before a magistrate in which he claimed that Hindu groups had carried out the Malegaon blast in 2006 that left 37 people dead and over 100 injured.Accepting CBI's arguments, special MCOCA Judge Yatin D Shinde granted the agency permission under section 173 (8) of Criminal Procedure Code to reinvestigate the case. The Anti-Terror Squad of Maharashtra as well as the then team of CBI had stayed away from re-investigating the case despite being handed over the probe by Maharashtra Government on December 21, 2006.