Malegaon blasts: SC asks Bombay HC to decide Lt Col Prasad Purohit's plea against sanction expeditiously

New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Bombay High Court to decide expeditiously the plea of Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, regarding the prior sanction for his prosecution.

Purohit had said that the sanction granted by the government to prosecute him in the case, was wrong in law.

A bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Justice Vikram Nath asked the High