Pune, Aug. 4 -- Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, one of the seven accused acquitted by a court in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, was accorded a grand welcome by his family members and supporters on his return home in Pune on Sunday.
A special court in Mumbai on Thursday acquitted Purohit, former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and five others; nearly 17 years after a blast in Malegaon town in Nashik district of north Maharashtra claimed six lives.
While acquitting them, the court noted that there was "no reliable and cogent evidence" against them.
As Purohit returned, his friends and family members gathered outside the Shantisheela Housing Society located on the Law College Road.
A procession was taken out with Purohit riding an open j...