Malegaon blast accused Col. Purohit dons Army uniform for first time after bail

Malegaon blast accused Col. Purohit dons Army uniform for first time after bail
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Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit today donned uniform for the first time after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) : Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit today donned uniform for the first time after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.

A Supreme Court bench of Justices R.K. Agrawal and A.M. Sapre on August 21 set aside an order of the Bombay High Court which had denied him bail.

He was released from the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai on August 23 after which he had reported to his Army unit.

A team of Military Police and Quick Response Team (QRT) of the Army had taken him to a military station at Colaba in South Mumbai.

Six people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008 at Malegaon, a communally sensitive textile town in Nashik district of north Maharashtra.

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