Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Thursday that he has asked the Army to provide Lt Col Prasad Purohit with all the documents he has sought to prove his innocence in the Malegaon blasts case, with paras inimical to national security redacted.
Maintaining that the matter was in court and he cannot decide on the merit of the case, Parrikar said he has told the Army to give all information sought by Purohit, one of the main accused in the Malegaon 2008 blasts case.
Parrikar said it should help Purohit prove his innocence based on what he is saying.
Purohit had earlier this month written to Parrikar requesting restoration of his honour by way of rank.
In his letter dated 4 April, he claimed he has been falsely implicated in the case and has been behind the bars for more than seven years now.
Purohit claimed he had infiltrated groups like SIMI and Naxals as a military intelligence operative and added that he had shared every detail of his operations with his seniors.
This is not the first time that Purohit has written to Parrikar. In November 2015, he had written to him requesting for copies of the Court of Inquiry against him by the Army. He finally got copies of the CoIonel’s proceedings following court’s intervention.
Two explosions had ripped through powerloom town of Malegaon in Maharashtra in September 2008 killing seven people.
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