Last week, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai had termed the case as "unsolved" along with the blast cases in Delhi's Jama Masjid area and Varanasi.
Asked whether the investigations into the German bakery case were complete, Pillai said, "Still it is unsolved.." and added that the modus operandi used in the Pune blast was different from that in Varanasi and Delhi.
The Pune Bakery blast case was jinxed for ATS Maharashtra when it first arrested a youth Abdul Samad from Mangalore and accused him of carrying out the blast.
However, they were left red faced after no evidence was provided about his role. ATS chief Rakesh Maria, after showing arrest of Baig and naming him as Lashker-e-Taiba chief for Maharashtra, had committed a faux pas when he claimed that the accused had been present in Pune where as ATS Deputy Inspector General, Ravindra Kadam, who was posted in Pune, rejected that Baig had ever visited Pune.
Baig, who has been granted audience with his counsel A Rehman, has contended that he was picked up by ATS weeks before the blast at Pune's German bakery had taken place in connection with a petty crime.
Baig's counsel is trying to prepare his defence from the 2,700 pages of the charge sheet in which he claims names of witnesses have been allegedly removed.
The advocate had recently submitted that the ATS has conducted the investigations and has filed a charge sheet against Baig and wanted to know the names of witnesses so that he could prepare his defence.
Rehman said he was facing practical problems in reading the charge sheet, determining role of witnesses and preparing the defence as the names of witnesses were allegedly omitted from the charge sheet at the time of supplying copies.
The ATS had claimed that the blast was carried out by Indian Mujahideen and LeT but the hate mail from banned IM after the Jama Masjid blast last September had accused the ATS chief of trapping "innocents" in the German bakery case.
