Per, Shree Chandrashekhar, CJ:-

These criminal appeals filed under section 21 of the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 (in short, NIA Act) seek to challenge the order dated 30^th September 2025 framing charges against the appellants in Special Case No.8 of 2013. By the said order, the Special Judge (under NIA Act), City Sessions Court, Greater Mumbai framed charges under nineteen heads against the appellants, namely, (i) Manohar Ramsingh Narwaria @ Digaria @ Sumer Thakur (ii) Rajendra Vikramsingh Chaudhari @ Dashrath @ Samander @ Badal Yadav @ Laxman Das (iii) Dhan Singh Shiv Singh @ Ram Lakhan Das Maharaj @ Subhash @

Lakhan, and (iv) Lokesh Sharma @ Kalu Pandit @ Ajay Tiwari.

2. The gist of the allegations against the appellants is that they along with the accused persons, namely, Dr. Farogh Iqbal Ahmed Magdumi, Shaikh Mohd. Ali Alam Anamat Ali Shaikh, Aasif Khan Bashir Khan @ Junaid @ Abdulla and Mohd. Jahid Abdul Majjid Ansari and a few other unknown persons entered into a criminal conspiracy between January 2006 to September 2006 to commit terrorist acts at various places more specifically at Malegaon in the district of Nashik by causing bomb blasts. It is alleged that the ap