MAHARASHTRA:

• November 09, 2016:  
  • Underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Abdul Rauf alias Dawood Merchant was deported from Bangladesh to India late on this day.
• July 13, 2011:  
  • Serial blasts ripped through three places in Mumbai on this day. Many killed and many more struggling for life.
• November 26, 2008:
  • LeT struck at CST, the Taj, Oberoi-Trident and Chabad House - 166 killed. One terrorist, viz. Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was caught alive who was later hanged to death.
  • External links for more info:
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• September 29, 2008:
  • 2008 Malegaon Blast Case:   Seven people were killed and nearly 100 others injured when a bomb tied to a motorcycle exploded in Malegaon town of Nashik district in Maharashtra, India, on this day.
    • Nov 04, 2008: Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit, a serving Army officer, was arrested for his alleged involvement in the blasts. The matter soon took a political turn with the BJP and the Shiv Sena alleging political motives behind the arrests and the Congress for using the ATS for political gains.
    • Jan 20, 2009: 14 persons were chargesheeted by Maharashtra ATS on this day. Sadhvi Pragya and Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit were named the key conspirators in the case. Further investigation suggested the involvement of the Hindu extremist group Abhinav Bharat.
    • Jul 31, 2009: The special court trying the case dropped the MCOCA charges against all the accused in the case, including Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit.
    • Jul 19, 2010: The Bombay High Court reinstated MCOCA charges against the 11 accused persons.
    • Oct 23, 2010:   While initially Muslims were seen as suspects in the case but it was under Hemant Karkare of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that investigations led to alleged involvement of Hindu extremists based in Indore, as first reported by The Indian Express on this day.
    •  Apr 13, 2011:   On the direction of Home Ministry, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the case along with a several other blast cases involving right-wing extremists, including the 2007 Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Dargah bombings.
    • Sep 23, 2011:   The Supreme Court of India rejected the bail plea of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.
    •  Apr 15, 2015: The Supreme Court held that the Malegaon accused cannot be charged under MCOCA since there was no evidence as on date. It further said that the trial court should decide their bail plea on merit and without applicability of MCOCA.
    • 2016: Charges against Pragya Singh Thakur and five others dropped by the NIA. Agency told a special court that it found no evidence against them.
    • Apr 17, 2017: NIA submitted in the Supreme Court that it will not oppose bail for accused Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit as the chargesheet has already been filed.
    • Apr 25, 2017: The Bombay High Court granted bail to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on a surety bond of Rs 5 lakh. She was directed to deposit her passport in the NIA court. The High Court, however, rejected the bail of another accused in the case, Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit, saying the accusations against him seem “prima facie true”.
    •  Aug 17, 2017: The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a plea of Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit seeking interim bail.
    • Aug 21, 2017: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Lt. Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit.
    • Dec 27, 2017: Special NIA court drops MCOCA charges against Sadhvi Pragya and Lt Colonel Purohit.

• July 11, 2006:  
• A series of seven bomb blasts that took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains plying the Western line of the Suburban Railway network. 209 people were killed and over 700 were injured.
  • The incidents that followed the bombings were used as details in the plot of the film, A Wednesday! (2008) starring Naseeruddin Shah, which was inspired by the train bombings.
  • The Hindi film Mumbai Meri Jaan (2009), which won multiple Filmfare Awards, deals with the aftermath of the Mumbai train bombings.
• August 25, 2003:  
  • Blasts in taxis at Gateway, Zaveri Bazar - 52 dead;
• March 13, 2003:  
  • Blast on Karjat bound train in Mulund - 11 killed;
• December 02, 2002:  
  • Explosion in BEST bus at Ghatkopar - 2 killed.
• June 23, 24, & 27, 1998:  
  • Blasts on tracks / Stations at 6 locations - 4 killed.
• March 12, 1993:
  • 11 blasts in the city - 215 dead and 713 injured.
  • June 16, 2017:   A TADA Court convicted gangster Abu Salem and five others in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai blasts case. The accused were found guilty of conducting conspiracy and terror activities, and aiding in the arrangement of arms and ammunition used in the blasts. A seventh accused, who had accompanied Salem to deliver arms and ammunition to Sanjay Dutt's house, was acquitted.