NIA gives clean chit to Sadhvi Pragya in Ajmer bomb blast case

The National Investigation Agency has given clean chit to four persons, including Sadhvi Pragya and RSS leader Indresh Kumar, in the 2007 Ajmer bomb blast case. The agency submitted a closure report in the case before a special court in Jaipur yesterday, and said, no prosecutable evidence was found against the four persons.

Special public prosecutor Ashwini Sharma told reporters that the court will decide on the 17th of this month whether to accept the NIA



report or not.The court was hearing NIA cases which awarded life imprisonment to Bhavesh Patel and Devendra Gupta on the 22nd of last month.

The court had convicted Bhavesh Patel, Devendra Gupta and Sunil Joshi on the 8th of last month and had acquitted others including Swami Aseemanand. The third convict, Joshi, had died during the trial. A bomb blast in October, 2007 at the dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti had left three pilgrims dead and 15 injured.