2008 Malegaon bombings | |
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Location | Malegaon, Maharashtra, India |
Date | 8 September 2008 (UTC+5.5) |
Target | Vicinity of Mosque |
Attack type | Bombings |
Deaths | 45 |
Injured | 125+ |
The 2008 Malegaon bombings took place on 8 September 2008 in Malegaon, a town in the Nashik district of the Indian state of Maharashtra, 290 km northeast of Mumbai. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) initially blamed the bombings on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), but in a chargesheet filed in 2013 the NIA and ATS (Anti-Terrorism Squad) joint investigation and involved evidences pointed towards involvement of an extremist group Abhinav Bharat and Pragya Thakur, who were later released from charges due to lack of evidence.[1][2]