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8. However, the Government of India directed the NIA vide its order dated 4th April 2011 to take over the case for further investigation and the NIA registered RC-03/2011/NIA/DLI on 6th April 2011. Quite surprisingly, the NIA filed a supplementary charge-sheet on 25th May 2013 against Manohar s/o Ram Singh Narwaria, Rajendra s/o Vikram Singh Chaudhary, Dhan Singh s/o Shiv Singh, Lokesh s/o Gopal Krishan Sharma, Sunil s/o Shyamlal Joshi, Ramchandra s/o Gopal Singh Kalsangara, Ramesh s/o Venkat Mahalkar and Sandeep s/o Vishwas Dange. Among these accused persons, Sunil Shyamlal Joshi was shown as dead, Ramcharan Kalsangara was described as absconding, and Ramesh Mahalkar and Sandeep Dange were described as bgp Page | 10 Cri. Appeal No.107 & 2772 of 2026.docx wanted accused persons. In its supplementary charge-sheet, the NIA stated that one Assemanand who was an accused made a confessional statement wherein he made a disclosure that Sunil Joshi had told him that the Malegaon bomb blasts were handy work of his boys. According to him, it was proposed in the meeting held in June 2006 that Malegaon may be a suitable place which has 86% Muslim population and Sunil Joshi assured that during the Diwali his persons would cause bomb blasts in Malegaon. The NIA recorded statements of a few accused persons among A1 to A11 who had previously suffered disclosure statements in MCOCA and were in judicial custody. According to the NIA, those accused persons stated that their confessions were recorded by the ATS under duress and pressure and they retracted their confessional statements. For example, the confessional statement of Abrar Ahemd Gulam Ahmed was recorded on 19th December 2006 and 20th December 2006 by a Deputy Commissioner of Mumbai Police. He gave his confessional statement also before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on 20th December 2006 and moved an application on 21st December 2006 for turning approver but, later on, he retracted from his earlier statement before the NIA. There were protected witnesses out of whom C3 and C4 stated before the NIA that they were not present at the time of seizure of soil samples from the godown of Shabbir Ahmed Masiullah. The protected witness A-369 was a key witness for the ATS who gave his confessional statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on 23rd November 2006 but, thereafter, he became traceless. However, the NIA claims that it examined him and he retracted from his previous statement under section 164 bgp Page | 11 Cri. Appeal No.107 & 2772 of 2026.docx Cr.P.C. He gave a new statement under section 164 Cr.P.C. which contradicts his previous statement.