Mumbai Jan 4 (Reporter) Eighteen years after the blast at Nanded in central Maharashtra, a sessions court on Saturday acquitted all nine surviving accused . The court had earlier reserved its order which was delivered today but the detailed order was not yet available, a Defence lawyer said the prosecution could not establish that the incident was a bomb blast. Of the total 12 accused in the case, two had died in the explosion, while one died during the course of the trial. In April 2006, a bomb accidentally exploded in an executive engineer’s house in Nanded . The blast killed two of its occupants, Himanshu Panse and Naresh Rajkondawar, who are now accused in the ongoing trial. Shinde claimed that Panse was his friend. The investigation into the Nanded blast, then led by the ATS, revealed that Panse and his friends were also behind three previous bomb blasts. Until then, the blasts at mosques in Parbhani, Purna and Jalna between 2003 and 2004 were considered isolated incidents. The ATS filed two chargesheets in the case before February 2007, when the CBI took over the case. The CBI filed a supplementary report and a supplementary chargesheet in March 2008 and March 2009 respectively...////...