Seven of the nine accused arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blasts, which left 37 people dead, walked out of jail on Wednesday after posting bail bonds of Rs.50,000 each, a social organisation's official said.
They were granted bail on November 5 by Special Judge Y.D. Shinde of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court after the National Investigation Agency did not oppose their bail applications.
The court granted them bail against bonds of Rs.50,000 each.
The other two accused - Asif Junaid Khan and Mohammed Ali Alam Shaikh - will continue to remain in jail as they were also accused in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts, said Gulzar A. Azmi, legal cell secretary of Jamiat-e-Ulema Maharashtra (AM), which paid the money for the bonds of the seven accused.
Six of those released on bail were lodged in Arthur Road Central Jail and one of them was in Byculla prison.
"This evening, the seven youths will come to our office where we shall felicitate them. Later tonight, they will leave for Malegaon and join their families from whom they have been separated since the past four years," Azmi told the media.
Four bombs exploded on September 8, 2006 in Malegaon town in Nashik district. The blasts claimed 37 lives and injured many people.