A special NIA court on Wednesday acquitted Swami Aseemanand in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blast case, while three others have been found guilty of killing three people and injuring 15 others.
The accused, who have been convicted, are Devendra Gupta, Bhavesh Gupta and Sunil Joshi (dead). Senior Rashtriya Swaymsevak Sangh (RSS) member Indresh Kumar has also been acquitted.
Patel and Gupta fined Rs.1 lakh each, the quantum of punishment will be pronounced by the court on March 16.
Magistrate Dinesh Gupta, had in February this year, adjourned the hearing as the court needed more time to study all documents submitted by the prosecution and the defence. The case was handed over to ATS Rajasthan and was later transferred to the NIA, which re-registered the case at the NIA police station in New Delhi on April 6, 2011.
There were as many as 149 witnesses in the case and 451 documents were examined, and the NIA filed three supplementary chargesheets in the case.
Aseemanand is an accused in several other cases of bombing, including the one at Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid in 2007 and the Samjhauta Express blast the same year.
Nearly 70 passengers were killed in the Samjhauta train tragedy.
Aseemanand was jailed in 2010 after allegedly admitting to his involvement in the terror attack on the train. He later said he was tortured and made to give a false statement.