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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Samir Kulkarni have withdrawn their discharge applications from the Bombay High Court in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
A division bench headed by Justice Ajey Gadkari allowed the trio to withdraw their pleas.
Thakur and Kulkarni withdrew their petitions, filed in 2018, as the trial is in its fag end and 289 witnesses have been examined already
Purohit's plea for discharge was heard by HC last week and is closed for orders. In December 2017, the special court had rejected their pleas following which they moved HC.
He is the second ATS officer against whom the warrant has been issued for not appearing before the court.