Panaji: All six accused in the 2009 Margao blast case have been acquitted by a special court in Goa. The NIA had named 11 persons as accused in the sensational case, including deceased Malgonda Patil and Yogesh Naik, who died in the blast behind Grace Church on the eve of Diwali on October 16, 2009.
Special court judge Pradip Sawaikar acquitted all the accused for want of enough evidence against them. Two accused - Malgonda Patil and Yogesh Naik - who were ferrying the explosives to a crowded spot in Margao town where the low intensity blast occurred on October 16 2009 were killed in the explosion.
The explosives went off a few metres away from the
targeted site when the two were commuting on a scooter.
Apart from Patil and Naik, no other casualty had occurred in the blast. Following the blast, the six accused - Vinay Talekar, Dhananjay Ashtekar, Prashant Ashtekar, Vinayak Patil, Prashant Juvekar and Dilip Mazgaonkar - were arrested by Goa crime branch.
Later, the investigation was transferred from Goa crime branch to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which had filed the charge sheet in the case on May 17, 2010.
The NIA in its charge sheet had claimed that four more accused were absconding. The blast had pointed fingers towards a right wing Hindu organisation, Sanatan Sanstha, which is headquartered at Ramnathi village in Goa.
Malgonda Patil, who was allegedly ferrying the
explosives, was connected to the organisation
Special judge PV Savaikar had adjourned the bomb blast case for December 31.
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