Pune:
A court in Pune will give its verdict today on a man who allegedly plotted the bomb blast at the city's German Bakery in February 2010.
17 people were killed and 64 were injured in the powerful blast at the bakery in Koregaon Park on February 13, 2010.
Mirza Himayat Baig, from Udgir in Maharashtra, is the only suspect arrested in the case. He was arrested in Pune on September 7, 2010. Investigators say they found 1,200 kg of explosives from his home in Udgir in Latur district.
The chargesheet filed in court names five others as conspirators and absconding - Mohsin Choudhary, Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal and Faiyaz Kagzi.
The prosecution has said in court that the blast was planned at a meeting in Colombo in 2008, where Baig was trained to make a bomb. He assembled the bomb at his cyber cafe in Udgir.
The defence says Baig was not in Pune at the time of the blast.
The German Bakery was popular with locals and foreigners alike. It has been taken over by a new management but is yet to reopen.