Aseemanand gets bail in Samjhauta Express blast case
A division bench comprising Justice SS Saron and Justice Liza Gill hearing his application granted him bail.
He was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), India's premier terrorism investigation body, which is probing the blasts and has charge-sheeted Aseemanand.
The Samjhauta Express bombings took place around midnight on Feb 18 in 2007 on the twice-weekly train service connecting Delhi in India with Lahore in Pakistan. Of the 68 fatalities, most were Pakistani civilians.
The Mecca Masjid bombing on May 18, 2007 inside the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad killed 16 people.
The Ajmer Dargah attack of Oct 11, 2007, outside the Dargah (shrine) of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan, had killed three people.
Aseemanand has linked the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological patron of the ruling BJP, to the blasts in an interview earlier.
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