Court accepts charges in Thane blast case

The accused allegedly belong to a Hindu group.

Sessions Judge V B Kamkhedkar accepted the draft charges and a procedural signature was taken by every accused.

Meanwhile,when asked all the accused also pleaded not guilty for each charge leveled against them. When the judge offered to plead guilty of conducting recce,carrying out a state wide campaign against the movie Jodha Akbar and play Aamhi Pachpute,making explosives and carrying out explosion,the accused answered,“We have all been wrongly implicated.”

The ATS has arrested a total of six accused in the three cases in which crude bombs were panted. All six have been booked for their alleged involvement in planting of improvised explosive devices at the auditoriums in Thane and Vashi and a movie theatre in Panvel earlier last year.