A special NIA court in Panchkula has acquitted Swami Aseemanand and three others in the Samjhauta train blast case that left 68 people dead in 2007.

The blast in the India-Pakistan train took place near Panipat in Haryana on February 18, 2007, when it was on its way to Attari in Amritsar, the last station on the Indian side.

The blast had ripped apart two coaches of the cross-border train.The Haryana police registered a case, but the probe was handed over to the National Investigation Agency in July 2010.

Of the eight, Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan and Rajinder Chaudhary appeared before the court and faced trial.