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Who is Pragya Thakur? From ABVP, RSS to Malegaon blast accused to BJP MP, long journey of Hindutva icon

DNA Thursday, 31 July 2025 ()
A tomboy since childhood, Pragya Thakur kept short hair and dressed like boys. She loved riding a motorcycle like boys and it was a motorcycle that led to her arrest in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, in which six people were killed and a hundred were injured. Details on her long and tortuous journey.
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News video: Pragya Thakur, 6 Others Walk Free in Malegaon Blast Case—After Shah's ‘No Hindu...Terrorist' Remark

Pragya Thakur, 6 Others Walk Free in Malegaon Blast Case—After Shah's ‘No Hindu...Terrorist' Remark 03:34

Seventeen years after the deadly 2008 Malegaon blast rocked Maharashtra, a special NIA court in Mumbai has acquitted all seven accused — including BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit — citing lack of concrete evidence. The judgment came just one day after Union Home Minister Amit...

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