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A special NIA court in Mumbai will deliver its judgment on Thursday in the delayed Malegaon blast case, almost 17 years after a devastating blast rocked the town of Malegaon in Maharashtra's Nashik district.

A bomb strapped on a motorcycle went off near a mosque in a crowded, Muslim-populated part of Malegaon, a city in the state of Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008, during Ramadan, killing six individuals and injuring over 100. The explosion happened on the eve of the Hindu Navratri festival, and the police described it as an attempt to fan communal flames in the volatile region.

The initial-of-its-type terror trial in India targeted suspected Hindu extremists, including:

Ex-BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit (Indian Army) Major (Retd) Ramesh Upadhyay Ajay Rahirkar Sameer Kulkarni Sudhakar Chaturvedi Sudhakar Dhar Dwivedi