A Special NIA Court acquitted Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Purohit and five others in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, citing lack of evidence and flawed legal procedures.

Senior Congress leader and former Home Minister P. Chidambaram has questioned the government’s assertion that the terrorists behind the April 22 Pahalgam attack were from Pakistan. In a recent public statement, he asked what conclusive evidence had been presented and whether the attackers could have been locally radicalized instead. Chidambaram also pressed for