In January this year, six other accused - Sachin Andure, Ganesh Miskin, Amit Degvekar, Amit Baddi, Bharat Kurane and Vasudev Suryavanshi - were granted bail on the grounds of long incarceration and the fact that the trial is not likely to be completed in the near future

She referred to an article written by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Julio Ribeiro in an English daily in Punjab, in which he mentioned that ex-Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare had told him he was facing “political pressure” from a Delhi-based leader in the Malegaon blast case