Mumbai, August 18: Madhya Pradesh High Court today directed the Assistant Solicitor General to seek CBI’s view on a petition demanding probe by Central agency into missing of Dilip Patidar, a witness in Malegaon bomb blast.
A division bench comprising Justices S Kemkar and Prakash Shrivastava asked the ASG Vivek Sharan to submit a detailed report on the issue after seeking CBI’s view.
The bench has asked Sharan to get CBI’s view on the petition demanding central agency probe into Dilip’s mysterious disappearance, petitioner’s counsel Bhuwan Deshmukh told reporters.
He said Ramswaroop, brother of Dilip has moved the petition.
Dilip was picked up by Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad from Indore to question him in connection with the Malegaon bomb blast in November 2008 and since then his whereabouts are not known, Deshumukh said.
He said the Madhya Pradesh police had failed to trace Dilip.
However, the ATS is maintaining in the court that Dilip on his own had come down to Mumbai and was ready to become a witness in the Malegaon case.
ATS has told the court that Dilip was asked to bring documents to prove his identity following which he left their office in Mumbai on November 18, 2008 but never returned.
Dilip was tenant of absconding Malegaon blast prime accused Ramji.
–Agencies–