Malegaon blast: Sadhvi has breast cancer

January 10, 2013 13:36

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast and the Sunil Joshi murder case, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a report from the Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital in Bhopal.

A mammography test on her confirmed the ailment yesterday, doctors attending on her said. Doctors at the hospital have advised her to get admitted for further treatment, which she has refused.

The sadhvi is one of the prime accused in the Malegaon blasts case of September 29, 2008, in which six persons were killed and 100 others injured.

On January 19, 2009, Maharashtra police filed a charge sheet for the Malegaon blast. According to the charge sheet, Lt Col Prasad Purohit was the main conspirator who provided the explosives and Pragya arranged for the
persons who planted the explosives.

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