SC grants bail to Lt Col Shrikant Purohit in Malegaon case

New Delhi, August 21 : The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon serial blast case.
A bench of Justices RK Agrawal and AM Sapre said they were setting aside the Bombay High Court order by which the bail was denied.
The apex court said it had imposed certain conditions on Purohit while granting bail.
On August 17, Purohit had told the apex court that he had been caught in the “political crossfire” and languishing in jail for nine years. Purohit had moved the apex court challenging the Bombay High Court’s order dismissing his bail plea.Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, at Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in Nasik district of north Maharashtra.