Who is Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur? 2008 Malegaon blast case-accused set to contest Lok Sabha polls from Bhopal

"[Thakur] had also expressed dissatisfaction about causing less casualties in the blast. Hence, it is difficult to accept submissions on behalf of the NIA and the accused number one that she had no concern with the present crime," the court had also said.The court had dropped the charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against her, and she is now being tried under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.She was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in 2017.Thakur has rejected all the allegations made against her in the case and has called them part of "a Congress conspiracy", a claim which has also been supported by BJP.She has also alleged that she was tortured during her stay in prison by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and state police.According to a report in The Times of India, Thakur had given a statement on video over this issue to a team of lady officers from Maharashtra police.Thakur had claimed that "the Maharashtra police beat her with leather belts through the nights, starved her for 24 days without even a morsel of food, gave her electric shocks, verbally abused her and made her listen to objectionable pornographic recordings in the company of male undertrials."Huffington Post further quoted Thakur as saying, "I call Digvijaya Singh ‘dikbhramit’ because his direction is never right. He conspired against over personal vendetta."