The Supreme Court today granted bail to Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon serial blast case. <br/><br/>A bench of Justices RK Agrawal and AM Sapre said, it is setting aside the Bombay High Court order by which the bail was denied. <br/><br/>The apex court observed that the charge sheets filed by different agencies contradicted each other.<br/><br/>Seven people were killed in a bomb blast at Malegaon in Nasik district of Maharashtra on 29th September, 2008.<br/><br/>A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court had ruled that the Anti-Terrorism Squad wrongly applied the law against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Purohit and nine others. <br/><br/>The charge sheet had named Pragya Thakur, Purohit and co-accused Swami Dayanand Pandey as the key conspirators. However, Pragya Thakur was given clean chit by the National Investigation Agency last year.

The Supreme Court today granted bail to Lt Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon serial blast case.<br/><br/>A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre said they are setting aside the Bombay High Court order by which the bail was denied. The apex court said it has imposed certain conditions on Purohit while granting bail.<br/><br/>Purohit had moved the apex court challenging the Bombay High Court's order dismissing his bail plea.<br/><br/>Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a textile town in Nasik district of north Maharashtra.<br/><br/>A special MCOCA court had earlier ruled that the ATS had wrongly applied this law against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Purohit and nine others.<br/><br/>The charge sheet had had named Thakur, Purohit and co-accused, Swami Dayanand Pandey as the key conspirators. However, Thakur was last year given clean chit by the NIA.

The Supreme Court today granted bail to Lt Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon serial blast case.<br/><br/>A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre said they are setting aside the Bombay High Court order by which the bail was denied. The apex court said it has imposed certain conditions on Purohit while granting bail.<br/><br/>Purohit had moved the apex court challenging the Bombay High Court's order dismissing his bail plea.<br/><br/>Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a textile town in Nasik district of north Maharashtra.<br/><br/>A special MCOCA court had earlier ruled that the ATS had wrongly applied this law against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Purohit and nine others.<br/><br/>The charge sheet had had named Thakur, Purohit and co-accused, Swami Dayanand Pandey as the key conspirators. However, Thakur was last year given clean chit by the NIA.