![]() Earlier, NIA did not challenge the acquittal of Aseemanand and other accused in the Mecca Masjid and the Ajmer Dargah blast cases of 2007, which NIA had claimed were carried out by the same group. Only after legal experts had studied the order would the agency decide if the acquittals could be challenged in a higher court or not, said a senior NIA official. The remaining three accused, namely Ramchandra Kalsangra, Sandeep Dange, and Amit, continue to be at large. Sunil Joshi, the alleged mastermind of the attack, was killed in December 2007, according to Indian media. Aseemanand had confessed to his role in the three blasts before a magistrate at Tis Hazari court, but retracted from his statement in 2015.īeside Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, the accused persons include: Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan, and Rajinder Chaudhary, all of whom appeared before the court. “The accused had conspired and propounded a theory of ‘bomb ka badla bomb’ (a bomb for a bomb),” NDTV quoted the NIA as stating in the charge sheet. NIA’s probe came to the conclusion that the accused were upset with previous attacks on Hindu temples and had conspired to target the Pakistan-bound train as revenge, according to NDTV. Probe was handed over to the National Investigation Agency in July 2010, which then filed a charge sheet in June 2011 after conducting a probe, indicting eight individuals. ![]() “The NIA Special Court has concluded that the investigating agency has failed to prove the conspiracy charge and ruled that Īccused deserve a benefit of doubt,” The Indian Express quoted NIA Counsel RK Handa as saying. The application had sought permission for out-of-court testimonies of Pakistani witnesses in the case. “What will we tell the families of the 42 Pakistanis who were killed in the attack?” he said.Īn application filed on March 11 by a Pakistani resident, Ms Rahila Wakil, was dismissed by the court. This is highly condemnable,” said FO spokesperson. “We have received reports that 4 of the accused in the Samjhota Express bombing have been let go. The Foreign Office spokesperson after news of the acquittal emerged, termed the development as “highly condemnable”. It also belies the rampant Indian duplicity and hypocrisy where India reflexively levels allegations of terrorism against Pakistan, while protecting with impunity, terrorists who had publicly confessed to their odious crimes,” said a statement issued here by Pakistan’s foreign office. “The acquittal of the accused, 11 years after the heinous Samjhauta terror attacks makes a travesty of justice and exposes the sham credibility of the Indian courts. Formal demarches were also lodged regularly with India on the lack of progress and acquittal of the accused in other terror attack cases. Matter was raised repeatedly, including at the side-lines of the senior officials, during Heart of Asia Meeting in 2016. Pakistan had consistently raised lack of progress and concerted attempts by India to exonerate the perpetrators of this heinous terrorist act. Around 224 witnesses of the total 299 testified before the court. At least 42 Pakistanis were among the victims of the terrorist attack. Nearly 70 people were killed in the blasts, which took place near Panipat in Haryana on February 18, 2007. When attacked, Samjhauta Express train was headed from Delhi to Lahore. Train runs between Delhi and Lahore, on Wednesdays and Sundays.Īcquitted criminals also included Swami Aseemanand, the main perpetrator of train attack he is an activist of the Hindu terrorist organization RSS. ![]() ![]() This court in India’s Haryana state acquitted four individuals accused in the Samjhauta Express train bombing case on March 20. Pakistan aptly summoned Indian High Commissioner (IHC) to lodge protest and condemnation against the acquittal the four terrorists accused in the Samjhauta terror attacks by a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court.
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