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A special NIA court here Saturday<\/span>
rejected 2008 Malegaon blast case accused Lt Col Prasad\nShrikant Purohit’s petition challenging the validity of the\nprosecution sanction for his trial under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).<\/span>
Special NIA court judge Vinod Padalkar rejected his petition after hearing the arguments of Purohit and other accused in the case.<\/span>
The court has set October 26 as the next date of hearing in the case.<\/span>
The Bombay High Court had last month rejected Purohit’s plea to restrain the trial court from framing charges against him and other accused in the case.<\/span>
The NIA court was set to frame the charges against him\nand others, but it was deferred after the accused raised\nobjections over the validity of the prosecution sanction.<\/span>
A prior sanction for Purohit’s prosecution was required since he was a serving Army officer at the time.<\/span>
The sanction was issued on January 17, 2009 by additional chief secretary of the Maharashtra Home department.<\/span>
Six people were killed and nearly 100 injured when an\nexplosive device strapped to a motorcycle went off near a\nmosque at Malegaon, a town in Maharashtra’s Nashik district,\non September 29, 2008.<\/span>
On December 27, 2017, the special NIA court dismissed the pleas filed by Purohit, his co-accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, and six others seeking discharge from the case.<\/span>
The court, however, gave them partial relief by dropping all charges against them under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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