Rush Hour: Pragya Thakur acquitted in Malegaon blast, Trump says Indian economy is dead & more

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A court in Mumbai has acquitted Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pragya Singh Thakur, Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and five others in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. The court held that the prosecution had failed to establish their guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

Six persons were killed and around 100 were injured when an explosive device strapped to a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon in northern Maharashtra on September 29, 2008. The court said there was no evidence that Pragya Thakur owned or was in possession of the vehicle.

The court directed the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 2 lakh as compensation to the families of those who died in the blast and Rs 50,000 to those who were injured. Read on.

United States President Donald Trump has said that he does not care about “what India does with Russia” and that “they can take their dead economies down together, for all I care”. The comments came a day after he said that India will have to pay a “penalty” for buying military equipment and oil from Russia amid the war on Ukraine.

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