Victims of the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast have written to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court requesting the extension of the tenure of the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) judge presiding over the trial since August 2020.
There is a proposal for the transfer of special judge P.R. Sitre to Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra as per the Annual General Transfer of 2022 where the postings are decided by the Chief Justice and administrative judges of the High Court.
The victims have also written to the Registrar stating that Mr. Sitre has already examined over 100 witnesses in the last one year and four months and any new judge will take time to get take over the trial.
