Per, Shree Chandrashekhar, CJ:-
These criminal appeals filed under section 21 of the National
Investigation Agency Act, 2008 (in short, NIA Act) seek to
challenge the order dated 30th September 2025 framing charges
against the appellants in Special Case No.8 of 2013. By the said
order, the Special Judge (under NIA Act), City Sessions Court,
Greater Mumbai framed charges under nineteen heads against
the appellants, namely, (i) Manohar Ramsingh Narwaria @ Digaria
@ Sumer Thakur (ii) Rajendra Vikramsingh Chaudhari @
Dashrath @ Samander @ Badal Yadav @ Laxman Das (iii) Dhan
Singh Shiv Singh @ Ram Lakhan Das Maharaj @ Subhash @
Lakhan, and (iv) Lokesh Sharma @ Kalu Pandit @ Ajay Tiwari.
2. The gist of the allegations against the appellants is that they
along with the accused persons, namely, Dr. Farogh Iqbal Ahmed
Magdumi, Shaikh Mohd. Ali Alam Anamat Ali Shaikh, Aasif Khan
Bashir Khan @ Junaid @ Abdulla and Mohd. Jahid Abdul Majjid
Ansari and a few other unknown persons entered into a criminal
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conspiracy between January 2006 to September 2006 to commit
terrorist acts at various places more specifically at Malegaon in
the district of Nashik by causing bomb blasts. It is alleged that
the appellants and the other accused persons triggered a series of
bomb blasts on 8th September 2006 which was a Friday between
1:45 pm to 2:00 pm at Hamidiya Masjid, Bada Kabrastan and
Mushawarat Chowk at Malegaon on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat
and caused death of 31 persons and grievous hurt to 312 persons
and severe loss, damage and destruction of the properties. The
appellants have been asked to face the trial mainly for the
offences punishable under sections 302, 307, 326, 325, 324, 327,
436, 295 read with sections 34 and 120-B and under section
153-A of the Indian Penal Code; sections 6A and 9B of the
Explosive Act, 1884 read with sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the
Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and; section 15 read with
sections 16 and 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,
1967 in connection to the crime registered as First Information
Report No.RC-03/2011/NIA-DLI which is commonly known as
Malegaon Blast-2006.