NEW DELHI – Eleven years after powerful bombs ripped through Hyderabad’shistoric Mecca Masjid, killing sixteen muslims and wounding 58, aspecial NIA court on Monday acquitted all five accused, including SwamiAseemanand.Some of the accused even left the premises after the fourthadditional metropolitan sessions-cum-special court for NIA cases announcedits judgement.“The judge in his order observed that not a single allegationlevelled by the prosecution could be proved, and hence he declared all theaccused acquitted,” said JP Sharma, the defence advocate.Soon after theblast on May 18, 2007, five more people were killed in subsequent policefiring as cops tried to control a mob.Altogether, 10 persons owingalligience to right-wing organisations were named as accused in the case.
It was reported in media that in January 2013, the then Indian HomeMinister Sushilkumar Shinde accused Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh and Bharatiya Janata Party for setting up camps to train HinduTerrorism including planting bombs in 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings,Mecca Masjid blast and 2006 Malegaon blasts.