Interestingly, the Muslim leaders in Mumbai and Malegaon claimed that the Union Home Minister P Chidamabarm, Union Minister Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and other ministers have also confessed in private that the Muslim youths were innocent and were wrongly framed in the case.http://ummid.com/news/2011/September/13.09.2011/nia_on_malegaon_blast.htm