2007 Ajmer Blast: Swami Aseemanand acquitted

Special NIA court in Jaipur acquitted Swami Assemanand and nine others in connection with the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blast case.  The case found three people including late Sanjay Joshi guilty for committing the blast on October 11, 2007 in the dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti. It left three dead and injured 15. 

Former RSS leader Assemanand is accused of being involved in five bomb blasts between 2006 to 2008 including those in Malegoan and in Samjhauta Express. He was jailed in 2010 after allegedly admitting to his involvement in the terror attack on the train.  Aseemanand  later said he had been tortured and made to give a false statement. This was part of a plethora of cases which were dubbed 'Hindu terror' in some quarters. 
The Rajasthan ATS initially probed the case and later it was transferred to NIA. 
 

Swami Aseemanand has been acquitted by NIA court in Ajmer blasts case, Sunil Joshi,Bhavesh and Devendra Gupta convicted pic.twitter.com/UVm2gv0pFh

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With agency inputs