On Wednesday, the Bombay High Court dismissed charges against four individuals accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts, which resulted in 37 fatalities and over 100 injuries in Nashik district, Maharashtra, India. The court's decision came after the accused—Lokesh Sharma, Dhan Singh, Rajendra Choudhary, and Manohar Narwaria—filed appeals against a special court's order from September 2025. The bench, led by Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, ruled that the prosecution, initiated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), lacked crucial evidence. During the hearing, the defense highlighted the absence of eyewitnesses and questioned the reliability of witness accounts due to procedural lapses, including a Test Identification Parade conducted over six years after the incident. The NIA confirmed there were no eyewitnesses, and soil samples from Madhya Pradesh, where explosives were allegedly prepared, showed no traces of RDX, further undermining the case. The blasts occurred at a Muslim cemetery in Malegaon on September 8, 2006, leading to the initial arrests of nine Muslim men by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad. The case was later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and eventually to the NIA, which charged the four accused, but they were granted bail by the Bombay High Court.