Particular NIA Choose A Ok Lahoti, in his over 1000-page judgment, mentioned it didn't discover any drive within the contentions raised by the advocate for accused Sudhakar Dwivedi, who had relied on the claims made by Mehboob Mujawar, a former ATS officer.
The observations fell flat on the face of Mujawar, who had reiterated on Thursday that he had been requested to apprehend Bhagwat and the target behind the identical was to determine that there was “saffron terror”.
Mujawar had on the time additionally claimed that senior ATS officers had ordered him to arrest Bhagwat, however he had refused to obey such unlawful orders as he didn't discover any position of Bhagwat within the alleged offence.
The courtroom, in its order, rejected the defence lawyer's rivalry based mostly on a press release made by ACP Mohan Kulkarni, the then chief investigating officer, that Mujawar was by no means requested to arrest any member of RSS and was solely despatched out to hint the 2 absconding accused – Ramji Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange.
