Summary:
Mumbai, Dec 1 (PTI) A lawyer, representing the victims of the 2008 Malegaon blast, has written to the NIA superintendent urging him to take the help of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), which had probed the case earlier, citing that several witnesses were turning hostile.
Advocate Shahid Nadeem also submitted the letter in the special NIA court, where special judge P R Sitre took it on record.
A copy of the letter has also been marked to the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and Bombay High Court.
As many as 208 witness have deposed before the special NIA court, of which eight have turned hostile.
"It can be inferred that the NIA"s competence regarding the trial is reducing based on the pattern of the witnesses.
The witnesses are called on by the prosecution without studying their statements and without following any particular sequence," the letter stated.