Sameer Kulkarni

Maharashtra has formed an expert committee to boost patent quality and commercialisation from academic institutions, addressing a decline in its national patent ranking. The move aims to shift focus from filing quantity to successful grants and industry adoption, tackling issues like poor drafting and academic-driven filings.

Investigations into the September 29 Malegaon bomb blast that killed six people have revealed that sameer kulkarni was present in the textile town, on that day, said police sources.

Five out of nine accused, arrested so far by Anti-Terrorist Squad in connection with Malegaon blasts case, will be produced again in a local court tomorrow.

Two city-based lawyers were killed in a road accident on NH-13 near Kushtagi in Koppal district in the wee hours of Monday.

A bomb explosion and causing the death of six people is not an act of “official duty”, the Bombay high court observed Monday, dismissing an appeal for discharge filed by Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.

Bombay high court judge Justice Revati Mohite-Dere on Friday recused herself from hearing a petition related to the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts.

The two forensic tests — psychological profiling and polygraph tests — carried out on sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, key accused in the Malegaon blast case, failed to yield any fresh information.

A special NIA court on Thursday disposed of a plea filed by sameer kulkarni, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, who had sought removal of the charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), claiming the charges were not applicable against him on the grounds that proper procedure was not followed.

sameer kulkarni (38) suffered sleepless nights for about four months. Every time he tried to sleep, he would be rudely awakened, not by any intruder, but by his own breath, which would choke him more than once a minute.

Malegaon blast accused sameer kulkarni wants to contest Lok Sabha elections, said his counsels defending him in a case related to arson in a church here.

The Madhya Pradesh government will be providing two bodyguards to Jitendra Bhakroda, an Indore-based mechanic who is NIA’s key witness in the Malegaon blast case, for his court hearing.

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Himani Savarkar, president of the Abhinav Bharat and the Hindu Mahasabha, said that she would provide free legal aid to all the Abhinav Bharat members who were arrested in the Malegaon bomb blast case.

The two forensic tests-psychological profiling and polygraph tests-carried out on sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, key accused in the Malegaon blast case, on Saturday has failed to yield any fresh information.

A video recording shows that four accused in the Malegaon blasts probe attended a convention of Abhinav Bharat earlier this year.

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Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case and now BJP MP from Bhopal, appeared before a special NIA trial court here on Monday. Thakur was present along with four other accused, including Lt Col Prasad Purohit, retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and sameer kulkarni and Sudhakar Chaturvedi. Two co-accused were not present.

Madhya Pradesh DGP S K Raut has confirmed that Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad has detained at least two people, including sameer kulkarni, in connection with the September 29 Malegaon blast.

The Bombay High Court had on December 18 last year dismissed Lt Col Shrikant Purohit's plea along with that of sameer kulkarni, both accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.

Pankaj Phadnis, advisory trustee of Abhinav Bharat, a registered charitable trust, told that his trust had never heard of sameer kulkarni or Ramesh Upadhyay, "or any of the others,'' accused in the Malegaon blasts case.

sameer kulkarni, an accused in Malegaon blast, was remanded to judicial custody till February 16 by a local court in an arson case registered against him here.

sameer kulkarni, acquitted in the Malegaon blast case, accuses Congress leaders and the Maharashtra ATS of framing Hindus for political gain. He alleges evidence manipulation and pressure on investigators. Retired inspector Mehiboob Mujawar supports this, claiming he was ordered to implicate RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

The questioning of retired Major and his co-suspects, Sadhvi Pragya and sameer kulkarni, in the Malegaon blast case point to tapping into the feeling of grievance.