Sonepat: Throwing its weight behind the Malegaon blast accused, including sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a group of advocates here have set up a 17-member lawyers committee for providing legal assistance to them.
Stating that the Hindu Unification Movement Legal and Welfare Association (HMLA) will provide legal assistance to the sadhvi and other accused, Bhupeshwar Dayal Gaur, a founder member of the association, said here today the committee comprises 12 lawyers from the town alone.
He said the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police, conducting a probe into the September 29 blast, has already collected information about the association and he, too, was interrogated by in Delhi recently.
Dayal alleged that he was pressurised by the ATS officials to not provide any legal assistance to Pragya and other accused.
He said that the members of the association were committed to providing free legal assistance to any Hindu who was harassed by police and falsely implicated in the criminal cases.
