Army approves Purohit’s rise to Brigadier after tribunal intervention and court acquittal, ending a long dispute over stalled promotions linked to the Malegaon blast case.
For the second time, the accused in the Beldanga case could not be produced before the NIA Special Court, allegedly due to the absence of police escort despite court directions.
The court, while awarding the sentence to the accused, Ran Singh, also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on him in the case related to the seizure of high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) having a face value of Rs 94,000.
All these sentences will run concurrently for a maximum of 10 years of RI. The accused also faces a fine of Rs 5,000, with 6 months of additional sentence in the event of default in payment.
With this, a total of six accused have so far been convicted and sentenced in the case, relating to spying at vital installations and Indian Navy establishments by foreign spies/agents with the intent to threaten its unity, integrity, security and sovereignty.
The charge sheet was filed on Wednesday before the NIA Special Court in Bengaluru, Karnataka under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and the Arms Act.
A special NIA court in Bilaspur on Saturday granted conditional bail to two Catholic nuns and a tribal youth arrested in a high-profile case of alleged religious conversion and human trafficking.
Empowered by the NIA court’s acquittal of all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the BJP on Thursday demanded an apology from the Congress for falsely implicating a number of people, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.
"The court cannot convict anyone merely on perception and moral evidence; there has to be cogent evidence," the court said while delivering the judgment.
The accused included former BJP MP (2019 to 2024) Pragya Singh Thakur, retired Indian Army Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay, Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, and Sameer Kulkarni.
