Overview
- Additional Sessions Judge V G Mohite on October 17 acquitted Sahablal Amarnath Chauhan, Vijay Ramavaidh and Sanjay Ramavaidh.
- The court said the prosecution failed to prove a motive, recover a weapon or produce any incriminating article.
- It also held that the state had not established that the accused were neighbours of the complainant in 1994.
- The case rested solely on circumstantial evidence with no eyewitnesses, and the judge criticized the complainant’s testimony as casual and unnatural.
- The men, arrested in 2022–2023 after a 1997 chargesheet, were ordered released forthwith if not required in any other case.