Hyderabad: Just within hours after the verdict was declared over the high profile Mecca Masjid blast case of 2007, a judge in Hyderabad submitted in his resignation. The judge was no one but the same person who delivered the verdict in the 11-year old case on Monday afternoon. The resignation on the same day of verdict delivery had stunned everyone. The reason for the resignation as per his citation was his one.

During the verdict delivery, he said that all five men need to be acquitted because the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had failed to provide establish their role in the attack in which nine people were killed and more than 50 injured during Friday prayers at the 3-century old mosque. In all these years after the blast, more than 200 witnesses were examined by the court, and over 400 document was exhibited.

The main alleged master mind Swami Aseemanand, a monk and former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member who has been linked to three terror attacks were also among those acquitted in the case.

Hyderabad lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi raised questions over the resignation and called it an “intriguing” move.

Ten people were alleged to have been involved in the bomb blast, and they belonged to the right-wing organisations. One of the accused, Sunil Joshi, a former RSS member like Aseemanand, was murdered.

The acquittals gave the Saffronist BJP party an opportunity to take a dig into Congress by saying that it had been proved that there is “no such thing as saffron terror”. The term was also used in 2010 by then home minister P Chidambaram of the Congress party.

But the Congress party claimed that neither its president Rahul Gandhi nor any other party leader ever used the term “saffron terror”.

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