An FIR No 09/2020 was lodged when the previous Congress government under chief minister Bhupesh Baghel was in power in the state, based on claims by an RTI activist.
The serial blasts on May 13, 2008 had left 80 people dead and 176 others injured. On December 20, 2019, a Jaipur court had sentenced each of the four convicts to capital punishment.