On Monday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) declared yet another witness hostile in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. This take the tally of total hostile number of witnesses to be 14. A witness is declared hostile when s/he does not support the prosecution and gives a contrary statement before the trial court.
In the blast that had taken place near a mosque in Malegaon town of Nashik on Sep 29, 2008, six persons had been killed and over a 100 injured. BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit are among the accused in the case.
